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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.

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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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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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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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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 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 always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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 like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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 was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
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I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.
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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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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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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 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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