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That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

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I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

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I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

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I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

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It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

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Company makes my day.

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I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

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I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

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The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

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I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: July 29th, 1950

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