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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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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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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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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
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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 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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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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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 yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.
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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 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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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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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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