Art Quote by Barry McGee

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

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

— Bud Luckey

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I've always liked vintage posters of California beaches.

— Justin Peck

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

— Aby Rosen

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

— Condola Rashad

I had never really thought about acting as art. You know, growing up in Youngstown, the Rust Belt of the world, it was always…

— Chris Zylka

I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that…

— Aaron Ruell

Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and 19th-century British…

— Kehinde Wiley

I grew up in the art world.

— Cary Elwes

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what…

— Bill Viola