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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.
Robert Barry
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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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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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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 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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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 good at art - always good at art.
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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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I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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 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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If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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 never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
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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 work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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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