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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: About Become Bigger Bigger Picture Commodity Control Corporations Dictate Done Feels Freedom Heard How Like Living Many Me Our Outdoors Permission Picture Public Pure Seen Society Space Time Ultimately Understand Upset Where Without Work

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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: About Aim Anything Chalk Created Disturbance Energy Excitement Ink Just Lipstick Maintain Making Marks Me Means Paint Result Spray Street Using

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

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: Academia Art Drawings Paintings Pillars Sculptures Three

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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: Against Art Art History Canvas Goes History Just Like Made Most Radical Regular Thing Today Up Want Whatever

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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

Topics: Art Awareness Because Brings Closer Creative Develop Enables Every Expressive Extraction Freedom Helps Immediate Kids Love Normally Social Something Stimulated Them Uncontrolled I Love

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

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: Art California Really

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

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: Embrace Like Museum Parts Really Something Still Would

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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

Topics: Around Arriving Cities City Constant Daily Energy Fails Francisco Inspiration Inspire Love Me Most Never San San Francisco Still Vibrant Young I Love

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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: Books Different Finish Five Like Me Months Mostly Once Planes Read Since Six Start Takes Them Then Waves Way Weird Weird Way Year

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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.

~Barry Mcgee

Topics: Activist Aids Art Art School Artist Autobiography Biographies Close David Frame Just Kids Knives Love New New York Read School Smith Time Time Frame York I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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