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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 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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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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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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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If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
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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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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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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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.
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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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