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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 like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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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 took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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 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 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 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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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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