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 More Quotes by Robert Barry More Quotes From Robert Barry I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves. Robert Barry manipulate trying reality I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing. Robert Barry space ideas moving I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that. Robert Barry nothing-is-perfect perfect mistake The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world. Robert Barry drawing mean ideas I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece. Robert Barry breathing-space pieces littles Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else. Robert Barry writing art By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move. Robert Barry style want moving Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me. Robert Barry style important interesting I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really. Robert Barry nuts I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way. Robert Barry needed way art I think I feel much more at home in studio. Robert Barry home feels thinking So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school. Robert Barry trouble college school I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs. Robert Barry part-time-jobs part-time jobs I was good at art - always good at art. Robert Barry art I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really. Robert Barry brother years school I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything. Robert Barry grandparent grandfather memories I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents. Robert Barry aunt my-family parent I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys. Robert Barry guy names night I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing. Robert Barry rock-and-roll rocks guy I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever. Robert Barry curator dealer
