“I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.” TryingRealityHappensManipulate Author:Robert Barry
“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.” PeopleTryingKindDoneProblemHopefullyItems Author:Robert Barry
“Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.” ThinkingTryingKindIdeasHelpingJobsFallResultsClassTeacherTeachingStudentsI RealizedMy TimeSpokes Author:Robert Barry
“If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.” IfsWritingTryingReadingPiecesPaperMarkAddPopsLists Author:Robert Barry
“I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.” PeopleIfsTryingSuccessfulJust Do It Author:Robert Barry
“If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.” IfsGivingTryingUseLightChanceSpaceGive MeGive Me A Chance Author:Robert Barry
“I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped long ago trying to tell me what I should show in their gallery. They just don't even do it. I show whatever I want to show. They are very happy and as far as I know, they have always been very pleased with whatever I have shown, even if it is nothing to sell.” IfsKnowsWantShouldTryingLongIdeasShowsSellsLong AgoVery HappyGalleryShortage 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
“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.” IfsTryingLooksMeanArtFactsStudyFiguresPaintingArt IsTraditionJustificationTapestryArt HistoryWeavers Author:Robert Barry
“The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.” TryingFirstsPersonsBigsMuseumsFree Time Author:Robert Barry
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingMayProblemTalkingVideoSlides Author:Robert Barry
