“I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.” TwoStoriesJesusWalksStreetsBuildingColorIntricateBalconiesBright ColorsLibre Author:Daniel Alarcon
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.” LongTwoRunningGirlThreeSeaStreetsColorRiversTownsCleanFishesSmellWideMilesBarsBoatNosesLakesFishingRoofCrowdedCurlsGasolineSteepWhiskySensuousNightclubsAphrodisiacGaudyPiersFishing BoatsMackerel Book:Advertisements for Myself Source: Advertisements for Myself
“I really get inspired by stylish girls around the world that I see on the street. Colors, patterns, throughout my travels, whatever catches my eye.” WorldEyeGirlStreetsColorInspiredPatternsAround The WorldStylish Author:Olivia Palermo
“Each piece that I put in the street is unique. I never make the same piece twice. For Hong Kong, like for every city where I have worked, I try to adapt my work to the culture and the 'colors' of the city.” TryingCultureCitiesPiecesStreetsColorUniqueHong Kong Author:Invader
“Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.” MenMadeUsedIndividualGroupsStreetsColorIntellectualPredictionsAdaptabilityPragmatic Author:William Shockley
“The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.” UseInspirationWould BeSchoolPassionInterestCommunityMemoriesSpaceStudyEnvironmentImpossibleStreetsColorUniversityLondonDrivenArchitectureAssociationMexicoDiverseLivelySyracuse Author:David Rockwell
“I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.” MenWantedBlackStreetsColorPerspectiveNeighborhoodHarassmentStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.” PeopleMenWayFeelsBelieveStatesCharacterWantedI BelieveSpaceStreetsColorNormalDrawsTreatedHarassmentHyperStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.” MenWarLiteratureGriefStreetsColorKingsConflictShipsSailClosetsPalacesPeasantsWovenCheerfulnessBarkMerchantsCottages Author:Theodore Parker
“For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornography don't have full color pictures outside of movie theaters. Let them be in a different district. I'm kidding about pornography, but you get the point.” PeopleDifferentReasonHateFansStreetsExampleColorWalkingTheaterPornographyMovie TheaterGreat Fans Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.” PeopleIfsThinkingStreetsColorOkayThank GodTattooSpitThank You God Author:Hugh Jackman
“My mom always said to us, "You cannot judge anybody because of the color of skin." There were a lot of African immigrants in Italy at the time, and people would not even say hi in the street. And my mom, she would invite these people to the house. This is what I got from my mom: to not judge people because of their sexuality, their skin color, their religion, nothing.” PeopleSaidHouseStreetsColorJudgingMomSkinsMy MomSexualityImmigrantsInvitesSkin Color Author:Riccardo Tisci
“There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.” PeopleThinkingMatterWalksStreetsNew YorkColorShapesSizeBackgroundsVarietyVisibleConcentrationEthnic Background Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“People do not want to be disillusioned by the new president [Barak Obama]. The liberals felt, finally, this is our time. Now they're worried. Now what they see is more business as usual. We all want to give him the benefit of the doubt, we know it's a tough job and he inherited a mess, but at the end of the day, is it really change we can believe in when there's no public options and Wall Street reform has no teeth in it? It really looks a lot like we just changed the color.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingBelieveLooksEndsJobsFeltPresidentDoubtStreetsChangedColorWallBenefitsToughTeethMessReformWorriedOur TimeThe End Of The DayUsualDisillusionedBenefit Of The DoubtBarak Obama Author:Bill Maher
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.” WorldGivingFirstsArtUseLastsNightDiesFallBlackWhiteSilenceFireTreeStreetsColorGoldPerformancesFilledWinterSmellNostalgiaCelebrateFlamesKitchenApplesAutumnWarmthSparksBlack And WhiteHarvestOrangeSauceAmberSquashCinnamonPerformance ArtCiderRoasting Author:Shauna Niequist
“Prints can absolutely be investment pieces. I've seen prints from my collections from five years ago on the street now. It's totally possible. If the colors don't age and if the fabric is beautiful, then of course people should wear it year after year.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsAgeBeautifulCoursesFivePiecesStreetsColorYears AgoInvestmentFive YearsCollectionsPrintFabric Author:Thakoon Panichgul