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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.

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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 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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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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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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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 usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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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 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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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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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 try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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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 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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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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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
Robert Barry