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That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

— Jenny Holzer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

— Jeffrey Deitch

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

— Robert Indiana

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

— Shia LaBeouf

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

— Tina Fey

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

— Paul Stanley

If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity.

— Lukas Forchhammer

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

— Andy Warhol

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Barry McGee

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.

— Barry McGee

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

— Jeffrey Deitch