“I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas...” — Barry McGee Quote

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.”

“Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.”

“'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.”