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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.

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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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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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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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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
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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'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 always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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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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 like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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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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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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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 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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