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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 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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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 always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.
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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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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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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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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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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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 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 wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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 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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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 took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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