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Quote by Robert Barry

“I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.”

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Robert Barry is an American artist known for his contributions to conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s. His work often involves exploring the boundaries between art and everyday life. more

“I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual things. You draw them. They are designed. They are colored. They have a certain size. I put them in a certain place. So they are objects that have to be - artistic decisions have to be made in terms of the color and the size and the line and whatever.”

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“A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used. If it is just taken out of a context and presented as a sort of object, which is what - you know, which is a contemporary art idea, you know. It is like an old surrealist idea or an old cubist idea to take something out of context and put it in a completely different context. And it sort of gives it a different meaning and creates another world, another kind of world in which we enter.”

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“And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.”

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“I wanted my style to be very recognizable.”

Wanted Style

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“And when you are operating within your style, which is your world, which you operate in, then it also would make sense to you. Now, whether it makes sense to anybody outside is besides the point really. You just do it and then you find that other people kind of begin to relate to it and allow themselves to get into your way of thinking about things.”

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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.”

People Term

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“I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.”

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“If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.”

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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.”

People Ifs Trying Successful Just Do It

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“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.”

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