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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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 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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I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.
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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 just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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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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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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 like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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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You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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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 never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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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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