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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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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 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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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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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 space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
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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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The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.
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I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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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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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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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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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 always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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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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