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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 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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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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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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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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And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.
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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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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
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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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
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