I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal. Votes: 4
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine. Votes: 4
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else. Votes: 4
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. Votes: 4
A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with. Votes: 4
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything. Votes: 4
I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal. Votes: 4
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing. Votes: 4
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. Votes: 4
Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible. Votes: 4
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. Votes: 4
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place. Votes: 4
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. Votes: 4
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. Votes: 4
I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside. Votes: 4
In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti. Votes: 4
I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There's no gallery show or book or film. It's pointless. Which hopefully means something. Votes: 4
I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept. Votes: 4
I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance. Votes: 4
A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art. Votes: 4
The Internet wasn't even an option for me, so one of the reasons I was so motivated to do street art was because there was no other outlet. Maybe if the Internet had been around then, I would have tried to do stuff that went viral and was clever and got me a lot of hits. Votes: 4
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. Votes: 2
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.' Votes: 2
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. Votes: 2
I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me. Votes: 2
I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly. Votes: 2
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries. Votes: 2
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women. Votes: 2
Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold. Votes: 2
In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone. Votes: 2
Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. Votes: 2
Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things. Votes: 2
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries. Votes: 2
If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience. Votes: 2
When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way. Votes: 2
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art. Votes: 0
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me. Votes: 0
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus. Votes: 0
Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers. Votes: 0
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork. Votes: 0
So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
Prüderie ist eine Art von Geiz Votes: 3 Stendhal
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Votes: 5 Jonathan Swift
There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it. Votes: 4 Sarah Churchwell