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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 never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
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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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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 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 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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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 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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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 was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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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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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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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 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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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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.
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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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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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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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