Quotes About Urban Art

#1. Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

Warwick Thornton

#2. Capturing the terms of the debate through the adroit use of language has allowed the GOP to bamboozle millions of people about their own material interests.

Mike Lofgren

#3. The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.
And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.

Lauren Oliver

#5. I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

Graeme Simsion

#6. Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

Patti Page

#7. Great artists need great clients.

I.M. Pei

#8. To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.

Theophilus London

#9. The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and conceptual vision of urban construction, and perhaps also of social construction.

Sverker Sorlin

#10. We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

Sebastiao Salgado

#11. Because it's not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside.

Colleen Hoover

#12. The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Stephen Hawking

#13. The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#14. I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Fab Five Freddy

#15. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford

#16. The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

Charlene Spretnak

#17. If you're beautiful within, a person can fall in love with your spirit.

Angie Stone

#18. I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

Zooey Deschanel

#19. It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse

Ngina Otiende

#20. Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. ... my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

Carlos Fuentes

#22. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Eckhart Tolle

#23. New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy.

Michael Bloomberg

#24. In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

John Turner

#25. Oh, is that all you're looking forward to - a break from your studies?" He peered down at her with a knowing smirk.

Lisa Carlisle

#26. If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation.

Kristin Neff

#27. Don't be afraid," he said. "Art is full of agony and beauty. The pen itself a sword of pleasure and pain, isn't it, my poet?

Lisa Carlisle