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"I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."

"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now."

"I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all."
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"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story."

"What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world."

"Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic."

"You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going."

"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author."

"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness."

"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality."

"One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?"

"My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing."
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