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If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.

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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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 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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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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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'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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 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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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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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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'm fortunate in one respect that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.
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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 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 never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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