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I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.

Robert Barry

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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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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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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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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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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 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 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 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 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 wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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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 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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