When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.