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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'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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 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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But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.
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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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