Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry McGee

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

My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

Barry McGee

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

Barry McGee

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

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

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

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

Barry McGee

As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.

Paul Reiser

Bob, the guy who did 'Big Fat Greek Wedding,' immediately saw what everybody else chose to not see. This is not a little art film. Bob said, 'This is a big commercial hit.' He realized there's something about the movie that really works. It can play everywhere. It's odd when you see the things that are most personal can end up becoming the most universal.

Michael Beck

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

Being a musician is one of the more valid art forms,

Ralph Klein

bright, articulate individual, perhaps he's seen as too much on the right.

Jo Stafford

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Jo Stafford

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Jo Nesbo

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

Jo Brand

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

John C. McGinley

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

John C. Reilly

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

John Cage

So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?

John Cage

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

John Cage

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

John Cage

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

John Cage

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

John Cage

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

John Cage

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

John Cage

When we separate music from life we get art.

John Cage

All great art is a form of complaint

John Cage

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

John Cage

Art is whatever you can get away with.

John Cage

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

John C. Maxwell

A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

The items discussed in the Wall Street Journal article are not fixed -- far from it.