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I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.

Robert Barry

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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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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 am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.
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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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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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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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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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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
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I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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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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