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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 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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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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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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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 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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.
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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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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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But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.
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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 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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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 made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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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 also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.
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I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
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