Art Quote by Barry McGee Download Open image “As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'” — Barry McGee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Got Here Just Like Out Popular Soon Street Street art
Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The Internet wasn't even an option for me, so one of the reasons I was so motivated to do street art was because there… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of… — Nas Copy Share Image
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… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
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… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
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… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
