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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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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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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 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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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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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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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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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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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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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The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
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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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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