Barry McGee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.
-- Barry McGee

#Cities #Competition #Healthy
I'm really into California art from the '60s.
-- Barry McGee

#Art #California
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
-- Barry McGee

#Museums #Graffiti #Embrace
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
-- Barry McGee

#People #Graffiti #Would Be
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
-- Barry McGee

#Art #Want #Today
Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
-- Barry McGee

#Inspiration #San Francisco #Cities

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.
It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

Barry McGee famous quotes

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