I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

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

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."

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

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.