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.

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

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

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

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that's true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.