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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 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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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 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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I was good at art - always good at art.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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 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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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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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 really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
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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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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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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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