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

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

Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.