There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
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A little part of my life is built around ancient art.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.
Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.
People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
You have to fight against being an antique.