Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

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.

Pretend to be great

Powerful words always travel the whole world!

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

If you're offended, it's your problem.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing.