Local Art Quotes

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

I wanted to start something in New York that focused on making products locally and, because I'd just had my second child, didn't want to be traveling halfway across the world anymore. Originally, I wanted to open up a gallery space and sell things like cushions or blankets that didn't have a season, and have friends or artists contribute.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international.

It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.