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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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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 a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.
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I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
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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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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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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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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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'm fortunate in one respect that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.
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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 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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If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
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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 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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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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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You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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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 never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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