Robert Barry

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

— Robert Barry

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

— Robert Barry

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean?…

— Robert Barry

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

— Robert Barry

I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You…

— Robert Barry

If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you…

— Robert Barry

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

— Robert Barry

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

— Robert Barry

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

— Robert Barry

I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured…

— Robert Barry

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

— Robert Barry

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

— Robert Barry

I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind.…

— 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

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do…

— Robert Barry

I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They…

— 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

I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did…

— Robert Barry

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

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They…

— Robert Barry

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

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

— Robert Barry

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

— Robert Barry

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

— Robert Barry