Language Quote by Robert Barry

“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.”

Robert Barry

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I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything…

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Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

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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…

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I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

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But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing…

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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…

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If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

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