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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.

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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You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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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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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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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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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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 never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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.
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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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I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
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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 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 didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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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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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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