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I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
Robert Barry
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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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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.
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I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.
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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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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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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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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 wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.
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