Robert Barry Artist Quotations

Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.

I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.