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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.

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Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
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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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I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.
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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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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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The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.
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You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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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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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'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.
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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 in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
Robert Barry
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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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 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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