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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.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Thinking, Laughing

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Sound, Pieces, Bigs

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• I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

  Robert Barry

  Aunt, Parent, My Family

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• How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.

  Robert Barry

  Ideas, Mind, Doe

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• Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

  Robert Barry

  Saws, Firsts, Influence

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• I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

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  Pieces, Lasts, Influence

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Father, Kids, Cameras

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• I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

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  Film, Made, Filmmaker

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• I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

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  Art, Way, Needed

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• I think I feel much more at home in studio.

  Robert Barry

  Home, Thinking, Feels

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• I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.

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  Nuts

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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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  Moving, Style, Want

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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.

  Robert Barry

  School, College, Trouble

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• I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

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  Jobs, Part Time, Part Time Jobs

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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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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Guy

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• I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.

  Robert Barry

  Night, Names, Guy

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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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  Senior, Play, Joints

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Teacher, Writing, Stories

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• I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really.

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  Thinking, Hands, Parent

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• I was good at art - always good at art.

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  Art

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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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  Art, Space, Ideas

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• The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.

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  Wall, Space, Ideas

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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.

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  Mean, Artist, Doe

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• I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

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  Art, Stupid, War

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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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  Art, Aspect, Term

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