I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

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.

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

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.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

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.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.