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I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.

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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

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The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a histor…

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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 th…

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But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

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I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

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I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual th…

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I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

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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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