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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.

Robert Barry

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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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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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 went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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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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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 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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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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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
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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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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
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My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
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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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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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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to 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.
Robert Barry