If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going… — 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'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done. — Robert Barry 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
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by… — Robert Barry 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
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 think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did… — 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 Age Copy Share Image
And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which… — Robert Barry Basic things Copy Share Image
I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to… — Robert Barry Archives Copy Share Image
Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of… — Robert Barry Language 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
The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I… — Robert Barry Art 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
After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt… — Robert Barry Art Copy Share Image
I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those… — Robert Barry Art 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
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,… — 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 don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth. — Robert Barry Dream 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 Art Copy Share Image
The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important. — Robert Barry Darkness Copy Share Image
I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me. — Robert Barry 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 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
reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all… — 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
But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind… — Robert Barry Art 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
I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured… — Robert Barry Death Copy Share Image
The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
