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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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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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 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 usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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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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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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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 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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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
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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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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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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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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