In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.

I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space.

I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

I've got favorite sweatshirts and my Buffalo Bills sweatshirts that I've had for years. I will never abandon them. They are my pride and joy.

It gives me a lot of joy when I wear my design at a show and someone asks me who designed my costume.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.