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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 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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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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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 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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
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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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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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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