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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 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 like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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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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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 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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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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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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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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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 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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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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