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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.

Robert Barry

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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 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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as 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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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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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'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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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 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.
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