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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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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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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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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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 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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If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.
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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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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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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If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
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The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
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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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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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But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.
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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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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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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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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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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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