Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

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

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

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

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

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 am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!