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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 was good at art - always good at art.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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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 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 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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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