I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art. - Robert Barry

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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it. . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

Robert Barry

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

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I try not to manipulate reality. . . What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

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I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

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I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

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The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world.

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I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

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I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico. . . not so much the music, but the spirit.

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