Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

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.

Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers.

If one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.