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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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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.
Robert Barry
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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 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.
Robert Barry
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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.
Robert Barry
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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.
Robert Barry
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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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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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The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
Robert Barry
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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
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
Robert Barry
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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.
Robert Barry
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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.
Robert Barry
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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
Robert Barry
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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.
Robert Barry
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
Robert Barry
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
Robert Barry
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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
Robert Barry
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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
Robert Barry
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The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.
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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.
Robert Barry