Robert Barry
Robert Barry
Robert Barryis an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."...
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth9 March 1936
masters relation
I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
museums trying firsts
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
art school thinking
I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
art space guy
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
dream thinking projects
I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
mean done worst
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
challenges surprise finished
I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.
kind language realms
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
thinking interesting trying
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.
sleep night house
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
art challenges done
I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
two political-opinions world
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
art ideas deadline
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
years add down-and
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.