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• I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
• If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on…
• Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.
• Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
• I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am…
• I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped…
• My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
• I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and…
• I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being…
• I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
• All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

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