I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, a line from a window, showing a visual metaphor that runs through the quotes. They also stress that each artwork lives inside a bigger situation, and they accept whatever result appears, saying the outcome is simply what you live with.
![“I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ab/robert-barry-3413_art_i-mean-part-of-the-justification-for-art_3173043.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/955/robert-barry-3413_art_but-if-i-did-read-say-maurice-merleau-po_2511305.jpg)
