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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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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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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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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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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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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 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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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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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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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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 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't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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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 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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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 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 wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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