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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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My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
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I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.
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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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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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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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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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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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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I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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 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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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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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 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 was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.
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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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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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