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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 an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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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 ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to Air America, down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
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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 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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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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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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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 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 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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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I'm fortunate in one respect that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.
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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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