Art Quote by Gedde Watanabe

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators…

— Gavin Newsom

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

— Sara Zarr

I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look up to.

— Devendra Banhart

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

— Barry McGee

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

— Henry Adams

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space…

— Anne Roiphe

That's the way it was in New York City in the early Seventies, all the artists hung out together.

— Bebe Buell

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

— Gedde Watanabe

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

— Jon M. Chu

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

— Huey Lewis

The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of…

— GRiZ

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

— Ambrose Bierce