"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."

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Source : "'It Is Ultimately About Freedom': Barry McGee on His Prism Gallery Show and Berkeley Museum Retrospective". ARTINFO Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

Barry McGee

#Inspiration Quotes #San Francisco Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.”
“What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?”
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!”
“I got really excited about BeyoncÃ©, but it was BeyoncÃ©. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.”

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“But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
“I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.”
“Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.”

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