What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain … - John Baldessari

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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

John Baldessari

What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

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