Art Quote by Imogen Binnie

“[Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last.”

— Wendy Lichtman

“The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.”

— Leonard Baskin

“Here it is, all at once: rightness. Not the graffiti itself, even though it's undeniably spectacular, but this feeling of making plans and carrying…

— Nina LaCour

“Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“... and people who have kids, people with husbands and jobs and mortgages, don't much want to hear about other people's paintings.”

— Michele Young-Stone

“If a living place can be likened to a city, the art on the wall, or the lack of art, is the first sign”

— Martin Lindstrom

“I enjoyed what I saw in Williamsburg. But when something is not shared, it is never as poignant, or as meaningful, or as beautiful…

— Jim Kraus

“Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.”

— Chaim Potok

“Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living?…

— Rosamund Lupton

“I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape…

— Bauvard

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.

— Adrien Brody

“Artists never thrive in colonies.”

— Henry Miller