You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

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

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

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

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

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.