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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

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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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Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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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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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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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.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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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 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 was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.
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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.
Robert Barry