Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station. — 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
The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be… — 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
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 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
I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There… — 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
![“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/img-quotes/4e4/robert-barry-3413_art_when-you-present-works-of-art-one-thing_2453368.jpg)
