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

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

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.

The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.