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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

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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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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 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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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