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I was good at art - always good at art.

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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
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You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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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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The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.
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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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I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
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I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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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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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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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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