If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. — Robert Barry 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
If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever… — 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
If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I… — Robert Barry 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
When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those… — Robert Barry 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
I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking… — 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
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
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 prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the… — 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 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
But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I like a lot of good European films, good - anything really. I'm a big fan of Netflix and I get films… — 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
Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important. — Robert Barry Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. — Robert Barry Copy Share
Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me. — Robert Barry Copy Share
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
Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as… — Robert Barry Copy Share
![“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/quotes/i/4e4/robert-barry-3413_art_when-you-present-works-of-art-one-thing_2453368.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/quotes/i/955/robert-barry-3413_art_but-if-i-did-read-say-maurice-merleau-po_2511305.jpg)
![“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/quotes/i/4ab/robert-barry-3413_art_i-mean-part-of-the-justification-for-art_3173043.jpg)
