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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
Robert Barry
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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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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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And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.
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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 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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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