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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

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The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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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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I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
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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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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 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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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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I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
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I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
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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 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 just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.
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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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I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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 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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