Zitat des Tages von Barry McGee:
If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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.
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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.
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.
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
