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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.

  Robert Barry

  Mind, Doe, Weak

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• Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.

  Robert Barry

  Book, Thinking, Artist

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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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  Thinking, Mind, Different

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• Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

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  Reading, Form, Conversation

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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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  Art, Thinking, Laughing

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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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  People, Fluidity, Saws

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• Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Fall

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• And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.

  Robert Barry

  Mean, Artist, Doe

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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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  People, Interesting, Guy

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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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  People, Trying, Done

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• So it sort of dawned on me that you have to build into your work the fact that it's going to be shown in different kinds of places and different kinds of light. And the fact that the surroundings and where you're going to be shown is always changing, so that should really not affect the meaning of the work. It should be part of what the work is about.

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  Light, Different, Facts

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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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  Connections, Care

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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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  Thinking, People, Care

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Tree, Way, Photograph

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• I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped long ago trying to tell me what I should show in their gallery. They just don't even do it. I show whatever I want to show. They are very happy and as far as I know, they have always been very pleased with whatever I have shown, even if it is nothing to sell.

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  Long Ago, Ideas, Trying

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• I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.

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  Curator, Dealer

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• 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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  Reading, Writing, Trying

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• I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

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  Artist, Pressure, Facts

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• I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

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  Artist, Giving, Want

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• I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

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  Art, Ideas

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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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  Light, Space, Giving

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• I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.

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  People, Sometimes, Approach

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• I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.

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  Successful, People, Trying

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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.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Style

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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.

  Robert Barry

  People, Term

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