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.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

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

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

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

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