I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to… — Robert Barry 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 Copy Share Image
I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something… — Robert Barry 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 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 Copy Share Image
I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used.… — 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
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 shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything… — Robert Barry 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 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, but it's… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided… — 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 Copy Share Image
But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing… — 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 it for… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me. — 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 the seasons.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
