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Robert Barry Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.
I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.
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.
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.
Ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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.
I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
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.
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.
I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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.
I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.
But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.
And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.
I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.