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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.

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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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 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 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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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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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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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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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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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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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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 had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
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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 really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.
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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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 my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
Robert Barry