If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the… — Robert Barry Collectors Copy Share Image
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate. — Robert Barry May 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 Ifs Copy Share Image
Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids. — Robert Barry Artist Copy Share Image
So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college.… — Robert Barry After school Copy Share Image
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning. — Robert Barry Cinema 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 Add 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 Deadline Copy Share Image
I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something… — Robert Barry Art 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 Approach Copy Share Image
I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very… — Robert Barry Art 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… — Robert Barry Artist 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 Arise Copy Share Image
The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were… — Robert Barry Bigs 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 Analysis 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 Artist 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 Class 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 Art 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 Artist Copy Share Image
I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records… — Robert Barry Big things 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 Just do it 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 Art Copy Share Image
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by… — Robert Barry Currents 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 Bigs Copy Share Image
I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done. — Robert Barry Critic 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 Exist Copy Share Image
I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art. — Robert Barry Anti vietnam war Copy Share Image
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't. — Robert Barry Care Copy Share Image
I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves. — Robert Barry Happens Copy Share Image
I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We… — Robert Barry Beach Copy Share Image
I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn.… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person. — Robert Barry Bigs Copy Share Image
You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station. — Robert Barry People 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 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/img-quotes/955/robert-barry-3413_art_but-if-i-did-read-say-maurice-merleau-po_2511305.jpg)
