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

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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

“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.”

People Wanted Guy Interesting Professors Tenure

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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.”

Thinking Trying Kind Ideas Helping Jobs Fall Results Class Teacher Teaching Students I Realized My Time Spokes

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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.”

People Kind Saws Happened Tied Fluidity

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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.”

People Thinking Knows Behinds Car Comfortable Wheels

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