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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'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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 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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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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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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 like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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 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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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 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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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
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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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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 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 was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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