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

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.

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.

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

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.

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