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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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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 took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
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