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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

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My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
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I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
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I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
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I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
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I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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