Quotes from Robert Barry

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

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.

To believe in God is sinful. Only those who KNOW God are without sin. John 10:15

Having a self-published book is akin to having a newborn baby - if you don't give it the loving care and attention it deserves, it will die.

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.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

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

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

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

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.

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

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

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.

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.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

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

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

I was good at art - always good at art.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

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

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.