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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Barry McGee

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

— Shepard Fairey

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

— JR

When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.

— Shepard Fairey

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

— Eli Broad

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

— John Maeda

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

— Joe Jonas

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'

— Geoffrey Canada