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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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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 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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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 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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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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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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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I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I 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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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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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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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.
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