Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids. Robert Barry More Quotes by Robert Barry More Quotes From Robert Barry 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 usemeanpeople Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really. Robert Barry formreadingconversation 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 laughingartthinking You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care. Robert Barry carepeoplethinking You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't. Robert Barry connectionscare 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 donetryingpeople 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. Robert Barry guypeopleinteresting 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. Robert Barry teacherjobsfall I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really. Robert Barry fluiditysawspeople I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries. Robert Barry gallerystudiosgone
