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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.

Robert Barry

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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to Air America, down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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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 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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I was good at art - always good at 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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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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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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