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.

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.

Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.