Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

- Robert Barry

People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and th…

- Robert Barry

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

- Robert Barry

The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a histor…

- Robert Barry

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

- Robert Barry

I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual th…

- 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.

- Robert Barry

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

- Robert Barry

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

- Robert Barry