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I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

Robert Barry

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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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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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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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
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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.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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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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 may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
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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.
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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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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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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
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But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.
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