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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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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
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I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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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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The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
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I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
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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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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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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 didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
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I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
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And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.
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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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