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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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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I'm fortunate in one respect that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.
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I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
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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 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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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 just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I 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'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
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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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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 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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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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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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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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