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.

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.

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

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

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

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.