Quotes by Barry Mcgee - Page 1

I'm really into California art from the '60s.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Art
California
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My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Artwork
Stolen
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Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
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Apple
Galleries
Steal
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Academia
Pillars
Drawings
Sculptures
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
If I Could
Toughest
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Art World
Radical
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I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
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Art Form
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Embrace
Graffiti
Museums
Museum
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Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Shops
Thrift
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I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
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Bay Area
California
Bay
Bruce
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Graffiti
People
Would Be
Enraged
Mission
Statement
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Art
Today
Want
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Art History
Canvas
Radical
Regular
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Bag
Tons
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Planes
Finish
Waves
Weird Way
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That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Cities
Competition
Healthy
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I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Arresting
Block
Cop
Tag
Hugging
Passed
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Aids
Art School
Autobiography
Biographies
Love Time Art
David
Love Art Time
Frame
Smith
Time Frame
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Streets
Term
Ending
Galleries
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It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Embarrassing
Intense
Nostalgic
Revive
Downright
Experienced
Maddening
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Arriving
Cities
Constant
Inspiration
San Francisco
Love Daily Me
Fails
Francisco
San
Vibrant
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Gallery
Paint
San Francisco
Dynamic
Francisco
Outdoors
San
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Aim
Chalk
Disturbance
Excitement
Ink
Lipstick
Markers
Paint
Spray
Street
Maintain
Marks
Result
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I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Expressive
Brings
Closer
Enables
Immediate
Normally
Stimulated
Uncontrolled
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Drawing
Work Me Start
Plane
Stack
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
Barry Mcgee / Painter
Bigger Picture
Commodity
Corporations
Permission
Pure
Upset
Time Work Space
Dictate
Outdoors
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