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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.

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I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
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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.
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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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 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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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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I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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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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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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I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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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.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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 like contrasting between black and white and color.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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.
Robert Barry