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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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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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I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.
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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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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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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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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 never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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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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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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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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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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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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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.
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