I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won. — Robert Barry Competition Copy Share Image
You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station. — Robert Barry People Copy Share Image
I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We… — Robert Barry Beach Copy Share Image
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't. — Robert Barry Care Copy Share Image
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out… — Robert Barry Cinema Copy Share Image
I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and… — Robert Barry Brother Copy Share Image
You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean?… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
So it sort of dawned on me that you have to build into your work the fact that it's going to be… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a… — Robert Barry Artist Copy Share Image
I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to… — Robert Barry Analysis Copy Share Image
I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
ne 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 Art Copy Share Image
I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever… — Robert Barry Chance Copy Share Image
I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important. — Robert Barry Darkness Copy Share Image
Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth. — Robert Barry Dream Copy Share Image
I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
![“I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Colorado. And I've taught in Europe. I've lectured and taught. I've taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nigne [sp]. I was there for a couple of…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/09e/robert-barry-3413_art_i-was-a-guest-at-calarts-john-baldessari_555918.jpg)
