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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 always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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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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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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 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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