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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 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 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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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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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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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 was good at art - always good at art.
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And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
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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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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
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