165 Quotes by Robert Barry

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.

I wanted my style to be very recognizable.

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.

I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

The big thing is I try not to repeat.

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.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.