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The big thing is I try not to repeat.

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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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 like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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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 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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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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 like contrasting between black and white and color.
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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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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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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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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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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I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
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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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I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to Air America, down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
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