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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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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 like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.
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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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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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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The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
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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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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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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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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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