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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
Robert Barry
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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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If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
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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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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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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 had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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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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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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 just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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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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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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