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 BarryYou can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
Robert BarryI just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
Robert Barryne 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