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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.”

Quote by Robert Barry

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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

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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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“And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.”

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“Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.”

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