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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
Robert Barry
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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.
Robert Barry
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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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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 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 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.
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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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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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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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I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
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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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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 certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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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 you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.
Robert Barry
The big thing is I try not to repeat.
Robert Barry
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
Robert Barry
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
Robert Barry
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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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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