1. “Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.”
2. “I’m always careful to say that I changed everything I found.”
3.I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street “.”
4. “Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.”
5. “The right angle is one of the world’s basic shapes.”
6. “I knew I wasn’t good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I’m better at drawing than I am at writing.”
7. “There’s always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.”
8. “All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.”
9. “My mother warned me to avoid thins colored red.”
10. “The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.”
11. “I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.”
12. “When you’re working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.”
13. “I don’t do abstract art because I don’t find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.”
14. “I’m in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.”
15. “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.”
