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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 was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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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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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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 wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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 shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
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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 like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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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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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