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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 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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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 am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
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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 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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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 idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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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 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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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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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'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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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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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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 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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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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