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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.

Robert Barry

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I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.
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And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.
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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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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 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.
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I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.
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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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I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.
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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
Robert Barry