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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.
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If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.
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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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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 notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.
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I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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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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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 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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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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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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 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 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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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
Robert Barry