Latest Robert Barry Quotes from Interviews

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• I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

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  Talking, People, Giving

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• Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

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  Satisfied

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• I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

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  Mistake, Perfect, Nothing Is Perfect

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• People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she has done and kind of go with it. There are always - either there's too much color or not enough color, either it's not conceptual enough or it's too conceptual. In other words, most criticism isn't what the viewer expected that it would do based on what they think you have done and that's good as far as I'm concerned.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Thinking, Color

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• I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.

  Robert Barry

  Mean, Done, Worst

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• I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

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  Challenges, Surprise, My Own

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• 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

  Art, Space, Guy

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

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  Dream, Thinking, Projects

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• I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.

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  Art, School, Thinking

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• I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.

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  Beach, Cities, Wife

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

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  Museums, Trying, Firsts

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

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  Masters, Relation

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• The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

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  Space, Darkness, Important

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• I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Mean, Trying

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• 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

  Art, Challenges, Done

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• I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

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  Political Opinions, Two, World

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• I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.

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  Long, Video, Looks

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• I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Wall, Dark

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• 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

  Running, Home, Video

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• I like contrasting between black and white and color.

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  Black And White, Color, White

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• Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.

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  Problem, Ifs

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• I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything that - sometimes I secretly take secret photos, shoot video of people on the plane if it's not too crowded. I don't know, whatever comes up.

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  Airplane, Black And White, Color

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

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  Photography, Use, Stills

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

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• 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

  Sleep, Night, House

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