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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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If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.
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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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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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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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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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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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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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 was good at art - always good at art.
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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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