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The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

Michael Heizer

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Michael Heizer
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 4
Artist
Drawer
Land Artist
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Sculptor
Berkeley
California
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