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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
I was good at art - always good at art.
I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
I think I feel much more at home in studio.
Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
I like contrasting between black and white and color.
I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.
The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.
I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.
I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.
You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.
I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.
Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.
I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.
I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.
I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.
I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.
Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.
Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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.
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.