“Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.” ImportantInterestingStyleDevelopingVery Interesting Author:Robert Barry
“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.” PersonsArtTwoIdeasSpaceInterestingObjectsTwo ThingsSpace Between Author:Robert Barry
“The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.” KindLongIdeasSpaceInterestingObjectsPaintingWallOver ItExpandingCeilingsSpace BetweenInteresting Ideas Author:Robert Barry
“Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.” ThinkingKnowsKindBookMatterFactsArtistInterestingCome UpAnalysisInfluentialMatter Of FactHeidegger Author:Robert Barry
“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsKindMadeIdeasRememberNamesInterestingMaterialsHundredAspectBreatheMade ItAtmosphereGreekGasPoeticTranslateIntriguingNeonXenon Author:Robert Barry
“I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.” PeopleWantedGuyInterestingProfessorsTenure Author:Robert Barry
“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.” IfsThinkingTryingFirstsLooksHardInterestingVideo Author:Robert Barry
