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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

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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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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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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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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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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'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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 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 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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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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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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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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 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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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 first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
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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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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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