Occupation: Artist Birth: March 9, 1936
I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to th….
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 have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all..
People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she has done and kind of go with it. There are a….
I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines..
I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So ….
So it sort of dawned on me that you have to build into your work the fact that it's going to be shown in different kinds of places and different kind….
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning..
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's reall….
Everybody is always satisfied with what I do..
I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of….
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 ….
I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's n….
I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where re….
I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it..
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 ju….
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else..
I like a lot of good European films, good - anything really. I'm a big fan of Netflix and I get films from them all the time. If I hear about somethi….
I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it..
I was good at art - always good at art..
I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, ….