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“I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.”

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Robert Barry is an American artist known for his contributions to conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s. His work often involves exploring the boundaries between art and everyday life. more

“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.”

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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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“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.”

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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.”

Bigs Sound Pieces Limitation Strict Projection

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“You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.”

People Turns Silence Radio Stations

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“I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.”

Made Taken

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“People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.”

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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.”

Persons Form Reading 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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