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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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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 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 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 relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
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I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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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 prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to Air America, down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
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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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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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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 always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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 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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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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