I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
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I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.