I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

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

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.

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?"

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

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.