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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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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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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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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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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