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
The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with… — 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 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those… — Robert Barry 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 try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
And when you are operating within your style, which is your world, which you operate in, then it also would make sense… — Robert Barry 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 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
