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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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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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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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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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've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
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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 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.
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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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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
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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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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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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 was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
Robert Barry
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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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