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

  Robert Barry

  Art

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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.

  Robert Barry

  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.

  Robert Barry

  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.

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  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.

  Robert Barry

  Thinking, Hands, Parent

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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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• Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

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  Important, Artwork, Situation

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Light, Different, Facts

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Wall, Space, Ideas

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

  Robert Barry

  Jobs, Part Time, Part Time Jobs

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Art, New York, Book

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Space, Ideas

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• The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would be about. But that had more to do with the kind of general understanding of what the hell you're doing, you know.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Ideas, Understanding

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• I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.

  Robert Barry

  Memories, Grandparent, Grandfather

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Artist

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Artist, Thinking, Curator

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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.

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  Aunt, Parent, My Family

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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.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Ideas

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• I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.

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  Work Out, Easy, Possessive

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• I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.

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  Art, Selling, Very Good

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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 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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• The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.

  Robert Barry

  Names, Giving, Groups

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

  Robert Barry

  Curator, Dealer

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