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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.08,0:00:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Baldessari: Recycling Images
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.67,0:00:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[On poster: "Learn to read"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.92,0:00:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My early assistants would throw out some paper and I would take it out of the trash and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.72,0:00:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why are you throwing this away? You can use it."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.55,0:00:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was going to school, you had to write on both sides of the paper to save paper.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.87,0:00:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah, I'm a pack rat. Like, "Ah, I could use that somehow."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.57,0:00:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw a lot of that in India, how people there will recycle anything
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.16,0:00:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And make something new out of it. You see it a lot in folk art.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.02,0:00:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I probably got my... My first lesson probably came from Schwitters.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.94,0:00:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, he was picking up stuff out of the street. And I would pick up photographs from the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.85,0:01:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think if somebody wanted to borrow some imagery I was using, I would be flattered.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.20,0:01:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ha! Here's one I had worked on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.82,0:01:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really just don't think imageries should be owned, including my own.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.92,0:01:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it's part of our world, it's like owning words. How could you own words? I mean, it's stuff to use.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.64,0:01:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was retouched. Look... [chuckles]