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.

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

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

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?"

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.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.