Robert Barry

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

— Robert Barry

I wanted my style to be very recognizable.

— Robert Barry

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.

— Robert Barry

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

— Robert Barry

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

— Robert Barry

How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.

— Robert Barry

I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.

— Robert Barry

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

— Robert Barry

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

— Robert Barry

I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.

— Robert Barry

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my…

— Robert Barry

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

— Robert Barry

Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

— Robert Barry

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

— Robert Barry

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

— Robert Barry

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going…

— Robert Barry

I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so…

— Robert Barry

When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those…

— Robert Barry

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted…

— Robert Barry

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it.…

— Robert Barry

You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left…

— Robert Barry

I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of…

— Robert Barry

I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with…

— Robert Barry

And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that…

— Robert Barry

I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those…

— Robert Barry

I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which…

— Robert Barry

Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt…

— Robert Barry

The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,…

— Robert Barry

I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I…

— Robert Barry

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

I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught…

— Robert Barry

After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short…

— Robert Barry

Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

— Robert Barry

I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.

— Robert Barry

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

— Robert Barry

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

— Robert Barry

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

— Robert Barry

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

— Robert Barry

I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.

— Robert Barry

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

— Robert Barry