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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
Robert Barry
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The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
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You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
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I'm fortunate in one respect that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.
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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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