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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

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I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.
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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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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.
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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 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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I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
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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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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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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.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.
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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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I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
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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.
Robert Barry