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

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.

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.

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

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?

One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.