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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 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 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 made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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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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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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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'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 always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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The big thing is I try not to repeat.
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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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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed 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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