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We Are Obliged To Steal Pieces Of Language, Both Visual And Textual.

If Most American Cities Are About The Consumption Of Culture, Los Angeles And New York Are About The Production Of Culture - Not Only National Culture But Global Culture.

I Worked With Someone Else's Photos; I Cropped Them In Whatever Way I Wanted And Put Words On Top Of Them. I Knew How To Do It With My Eyes Closed. Why Couldn't That Be My Art?

It's Really Hard For Me To Use The Term 'history' In The Singular, Because It Suggests A Reductivist View Of How Moments And Events Congeal And Reflect The Passage Of Time. I'd Rather Stick To The Pluralness Of 'histories' In Order To Suggest The Simultaneity, The Parallel Forces At Work, Which Produce Lived Experience.

It Entered The Visual Vocabulary Of Photographers, Painters And Sculptors And Focused On What Pictures And Words Look Like And What They Can Mean.