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

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 am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."

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

I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.

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

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