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The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.

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Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people…

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Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

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Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Ca…

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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

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

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My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

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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 coar…

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I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

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There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

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