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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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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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 idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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 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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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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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 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 was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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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