Quote

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

Robert Barry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Barry
Shape
Size
Shapes
Objects
Color
Words
Form

More quotes by Robert Barry

Image
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
Robert Barry
Image
People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
Robert Barry
Image
The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
Robert Barry
Image
The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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 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
When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
Robert Barry
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
Image
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
Robert Barry
Image
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
Robert Barry
Image
My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
Robert Barry
Image
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
Image
I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.
Robert Barry
Image
The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
Robert Barry
Image
The big thing is I try not to repeat.
Robert Barry
Image
I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
Robert Barry
Image
I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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
And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.
Robert Barry
Image
I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
Robert Barry