I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning. — Robert Barry Cinema Copy Share Image
I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the… — Robert Barry Collectors Copy Share Image
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids. — Robert Barry Artist Copy Share Image
I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels; hard to say why. If… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking… — Robert Barry Giving Copy Share Image
I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records… — Robert Barry Big things Copy Share Image
The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between… — Robert Barry Artist Copy Share Image
Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students,… — Robert Barry Class Copy Share Image
I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped… — Robert Barry Artist Copy Share Image
I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college.… — Robert Barry After school Copy Share Image
Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important. — Robert Barry Artist Copy Share Image
If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it.… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with… — Robert Barry Creativity Copy Share Image
When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted… — Robert Barry Camera Copy Share Image
I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured… — Robert Barry Death Copy Share Image
![“When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4e4/robert-barry-3413_art_when-you-present-works-of-art-one-thing_2453368.jpg)
