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I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.

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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
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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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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.
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And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.
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I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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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 like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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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 good at art - always good at art.
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