And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

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I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the...

I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the...

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger...

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger...

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the...

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the...

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's...

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's...

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site...

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site...

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration...

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration...

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or...

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or...

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their...

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their...

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation...

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation...

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of...

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of...

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to,...

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to,...