Quote

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

Robert Barry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Barry
Believe
People
Minds
Certainly
Read
Mind

More quotes by Robert Barry

Image
I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
Robert Barry
Image
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
Robert Barry
Image
And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.
Robert Barry
Image
I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
Robert Barry
Image
The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
Robert Barry
Image
I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
Robert Barry
Image
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
Robert Barry
Image
I was good at art - always good at art.
Robert Barry
Image
I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
Robert Barry
Image
I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
Robert Barry
Image
You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
Robert Barry
Image
I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
Robert Barry
Image
I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
Robert Barry
Image
I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
Robert Barry
Image
I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
Robert Barry
Image
The big thing is I try not to repeat.
Robert Barry
Image
I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
Robert Barry
Image
Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
Robert Barry
Image
I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.
Robert Barry
Image
I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.
Robert Barry