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 know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that. — 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
I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You… — Robert Barry 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 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 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 work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They… — 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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 my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very… — 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
I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it.… — 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
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
