"I try to deal with things that maybe other people haven't thought about, emptiness, making a painting that isn't a pa…"

"My idea of painting was that those yellow squares, being put on the wall as delineating a virtual square or rectangle…"

"Barry is part of a generation of artists that gave up traditional aesthetic methodologies in order to reappraise the …"

"Barry was one of the first to see that mass and volume in sculpture were not dependent upon visibility... But also, a…"

"When I conceive work, I always want it to deal with three elements of human fears: suffering, pain and the priority o…"

"So many people choose to take pain as a way of life; there’s people who live a painful life in order to punish other …"

"The ego is the most dangerous thing for an artist. That you start believing in your grandeur, that’s the end of your …"

"Performance art never became a commodity because it’s immaterial."

"If you think of anybody else selling work for millions, it’s the opposite for performance people. I still have a huge…"

"Instagram is not art. Social media is not art."