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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

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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 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 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 always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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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 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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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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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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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 like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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 was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
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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 not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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