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I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.
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The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.


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I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.


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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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