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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 loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.
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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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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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 very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
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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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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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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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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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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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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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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