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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.

Robert Barry

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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 notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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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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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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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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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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 never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
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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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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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 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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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