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.

It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Instead, I got a job at Cooper Union Library. I stayed at Cooper Union for seven years; it was my salvation. While I worked there, I also read books of every kind.

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.

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

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

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?"

Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.