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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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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
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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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I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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 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 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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.
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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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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 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 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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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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