Words matter. These are the best Mural Quotes from famous people such as Simon McBurney, Westside Gunn, Peter Weir, Adrian Dunbar, Matthew Desmond, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.
When I came into the game, my influence was so heavy in the States and overseas people was painting murals of me, people tattooing me on them.
I carve stone. I’ve got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
I am on a mural in Belfast with ‘Floating up the Lagan in a bubble’ on it. You know you have made it when you have got a mural.
Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as ‘the cire’, as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with ‘WIC Accepted Here’ signs.
Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we’ve found that those are the sort of things that make people stop, digest, and absorb.
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi’s in Queens.
When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the ’20s and ’30s.
If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It’s like a mural.
I’m an artistic kind of person. I draw. I’ve drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.
I’m a secret interior decorator. There’s a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
This isn’t a watercolor, it’s a mural.
In boxing we’re allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I’m in an Irish vest, even on a mural in Tiger’s Bay, because boxing brings the communities together.
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don’t know. It’s just a mural… a collage.
I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last ’60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
I’ve noticed that wherever I’ve lived, I’ve either painted murals or done something sort of ridiculously over the top to make a space my own.
