Robert Barry Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Mean, Trying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• 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.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Space, Guy

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.

  Robert Barry

  Wall, Space, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s; certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.

  Robert Barry

  Past, Drawing, Want

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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