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Lack of charisma can be fatal.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

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The most profound things are inexpressible.

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One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

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I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

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So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

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Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

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I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

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On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

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The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: July 29th, 1950

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