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I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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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I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
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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 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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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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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 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 am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.
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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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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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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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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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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
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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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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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