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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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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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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 really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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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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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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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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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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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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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 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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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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 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 relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
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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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