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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
Robert Barry
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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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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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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 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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
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I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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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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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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to Air America, down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
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