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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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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 always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.
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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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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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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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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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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.
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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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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 really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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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.
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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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I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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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.
Robert Barry