The big thing is I try not to repeat. Robert Barry More Quotes by Robert Barry More Quotes From Robert Barry I like a lot of good European films, good - anything really. I'm a big fan of Netflix and I get films from them all the time. If I hear about something that I don't know, that I haven't seen, forgot about, I immediately jot it down and add it to my Netflix list or if there's a film that's available that I haven't seen for many years, I get that. Robert Barry netflix fans years Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet. Robert Barry deadline ideas art 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 house sleep night 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. Robert Barry trying interesting thinking I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work. Robert Barry stills photography use 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. Robert Barry airplane black-and-white color I like contrasting between black and white and color. Robert Barry black-and-white color white Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem. Robert Barry problem ifs 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 video home running I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets. Robert Barry video long looks 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 wall dark art 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. Robert Barry talking giving people And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s; certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep. Robert Barry drawing want past I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really. Robert Barry parent hands thinking The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would be about. But that had more to do with the kind of general understanding of what the hell you're doing, you know. Robert Barry understanding ideas art Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever. Robert Barry criticism should art ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it. Robert Barry artist I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know. Robert Barry curator artist thinking If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. Robert Barry should want art 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. Robert Barry aspect term art
