All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.

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.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

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.

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

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.