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"But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing."
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"Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished."
Anger
"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
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"In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist."
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"But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing."
Running
"In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure."
Time
"And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone."
Time
"And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions."
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"In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever."
Time
"I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity."
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"What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become."
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"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."
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"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."
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"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."
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"I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes."
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"The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground."
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"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"
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"Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it."
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"I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all."
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"How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?"
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"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."
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