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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'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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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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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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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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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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'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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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 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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And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.
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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 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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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 like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
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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 relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
Robert Barry