The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

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

I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

I was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in the South Atlantic. I did the documentation of Neubern in great detail. I drew everything that was there, all the houses and all the cars and all the people. We even had a navy and an air force. I spent a lot of time drawing.

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

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