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
concern drag fewer profit selling
We reiterate our concern about the profit drag from selling fewer SUVs.
cars cost driver higher improvement key north performance possibly
We think better cost performance was a key driver of the improvement in North American and possibly higher profitability on cars than we had anticipated.
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.
connections care
You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
problem ifs
Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
masters relation
I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
nuts
I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
film made filmmaker
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
rock-and-roll rocks guy
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
summer fashion lines
I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.
drawing people pieces
The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
competition lost has-beens
I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.
curator dealer
I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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.