I'm really into California art from the '60s.

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

— Barry McGee

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history…

— Dennis Hopper

That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always…

— Kate Bush

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good…

— Marina Abramovic

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school…

— Christian Cooke

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't…

— Athol Fugard

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and…

— Lily Cole

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

— Daryl Hall

When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

— Pamela Nicholson

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

— David Swanson

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

— Joan Didion

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

— Sam Hinton

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

— Kamala Harris

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

— Alan Abel

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

— Wright Morris