It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.

I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.