You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

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.

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.