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What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.

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When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

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I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

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At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.

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The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

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