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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

Robert Barry

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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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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 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 not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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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 just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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