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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
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The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
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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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I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
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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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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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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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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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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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I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
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