“I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'” PeopleArtSongBitsSidesCitiesPiecesPerformancesRadioPopsQueensCall MeEccentricPop MusicGagaPerformance ArtQueen Song Author:Lady Gaga
“Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.” ArtDreamCitiesPiecesOne DayWanderSavingBuyingGallerySaving Up Author:Nicola Formichetti
“I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I'm very proud of.” StillsCountryShowsNumbersCitiesPiecesProudPhotographyVariousEnjoyedTeenagerPermanentCollectionsMuseums Author:Leonard Nimoy
“You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.” PeopleIfsWritingHumansWellsMayReasonFallAsksHuman BeingsCitiesPiecesGenerationsPleaseBenefitsSightUnusualHeirsFalling To Pieces Book:The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems
“As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.” KnowsWorldWayWritingFirstsMomentsTodayLinesPowerfulCitiesLaughingRecordsPiecesStreetsTearsListeningBuriedAnarchySweatRollingRottenConsumingEarthquakesAntichristCity StreetsJohnny Rotten Author:Greil Marcus
“Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified.” WritingBookFoundNamesCitiesSupportPiecesMountainEvidenceRiversLettersRuinsDocumentsCoinsMonumentOne PieceLarge CitiesTopography Author:Dave Hunt
“I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.” KnowsBookLanguageBitsCitiesPathPiecesStreetsPagesHundredSevenCertaintyIntimacyBits And Pieces Book:Selected Non-fictions Source: Selected Non-fictions
“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.” ThinkingWantNightForgetCitiesWonderPiecesSkyInformationScaryStrangerWarmTinyAmiableCreeksTime Of Day Book:Jazz Source: Jazz
“The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece in Strasburg, and it works. Sometimes you're commissioned to do a piece somewhere else and it doesn't work, but then it moves to another city, the people embrace it, and becomes part of them. You just misjudged the needs of the people. Art is about giving people material and things to work with to fulfill whatever needs they have.” PeopleNeedsGivingArtImportantSometimesMovingCitiesAudiencePiecesMaterialsArt IsConceptsEmbraceSiteSomewhere Else Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.” ArtDifferentHomeOpportunityCitiesPiecesNiceStreetsSceneArchitecturePlaygroundsGreat OpportunityHong Kong Author:Invader
“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
“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing” LyingCitiesPiecesWindBrokenKingsAncientVanityDesertHowlVultureBroken Pieces Author:Sting
“Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.” ThinkingHumansKindEndsWholeHelpingBodySchoolOrderTermCitiesPiecesAliveComfortableConceptsStructureWholenessHuman BodyLiteralWhole FamilyDubiousSated Author:Carrie Brownstein
“The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light pieces so I can rent some more billboards; that's my only ambition in life really. Then I'd like to save up some money so I can buy a very simple wooden house, and then after that I'd like to start buying billboards. I'd like to buy a bunch of billboards in different cities so we owned them and I could give them to Occupy to tell the truth with.” GivingI CanDifferentLightHouseSimpleCitiesPiecesStreetsInternetAmbitionSellsBunchBuyingTelling The TruthBillboardsLife AmbitionWooden House Author:Robert Montgomery
“In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.” PeopleBigsLyingCitiesLaughingPiecesTownsBig CitiesIdiocy Author:W. C. Fields
“One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don't you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn't the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it's the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin', stinkin' piece of litter.” KnowsWorldSaidCareNextCitiesEnvironmentPiecesStreetsNew YorkGiantsNew York CityOne TimeMexicoCandyPussyMexico City Author:Louis C. K.
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens