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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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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The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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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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And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
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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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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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I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
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I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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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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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.
Robert Barry