Los Angeles
aka The City of Angels
Simply passing through L.A. in the freeway would reveal this striking fact: The City of Angels is rich with some of the worlds most exotic murals.
Exit off into Silverlake or Boyle Heights and you’re in for quite an illusion. The deeper you venture off into these artsy locations, the heavier the murals get.
From the deep diversity of its enormous ethnic neighborhoods, L.A.’s bridges, walls and freeway over passes have all been converted into concrete canvas for Los Angeles' cultural history and identity.
Urban Murals
By.C.A.
Murals in barrios across the United States are good examples of the power of social art and an important part of society’s cultural heritage.
Even though murals have been around since man kind was created, the Latino community has remained most active in the mural painting renaissance that came as a result of the civil rights struggles of the past.
These murals are an important form of social and political expression. Today there are well over one hundred thousand public murals throughout the nation.
Public murals can be a good way of gauging the concerns of any community. For example if a certain ethnic group is experiencing discriminated, best believe people will find a way of publicizing their concerns through murals and art.
America’s muralists are from a variety of cultural backgrounds, and are by no means only Mexican American.
Today we are finding murals created by other ethnic groups, such as Asian, African American and even Anglos.
Even businesses and the government have sponsored murals as advertisements or as part of city beautification and cultural outreach programs, not only in the Hispanic community but in an increasing number of urban areas throughout the United States.
Quotes
“Website photography is the mural painting of modern times.”
Quotes about L.A.
“A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.”
Bill Bryson quotes (American Writer, b.1946)
“Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel”
Fran Lebowitz quotes (American Writer and Humorist, b.1950)
“Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.”
Jim Morrison quotes (American Poet and Singer. Member of the American band The Doors and one of rock music's mythic figures. 1943-1971)
“In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?”
Liam Neeson quotes (Irish Actor, b.1952)
“European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles”
Cedric Belfrage quotes
“I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.”
Russell Crowe quotes (New Zealander born Australian Actor. b.1964,Wellington, North Island, New Zealand)
“In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.”
Delia Ephron quotes
“"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
- Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.
(in an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1991. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. )”
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Henry Kissinger quotes (American Political scientist. b.1923)
“Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.”
David Letterman quotes (American television Host and Comedian. He hosts "Late Night with David Letterman". b.1947)
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city”
Dorothy Parker quotes (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)
“Los Angeles is just New York lying down”
Quentin Crisp quotes (English Author, 1908-1999)
“Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"”
Henny Youngman quotes
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright quotes (American Architect and Writer, the most abundantly creative genius of American architecture. His Prairie style became the basis of 20th century residential design in the United States, 1867-1959)
“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
Andy Warhol quotes (American Artist. Initiator of The Pop art, 1928-1987)
“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
Simon Hoggart quotes
“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.”
Rush Limbaugh quotes (American, b.1951)
“Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic”
Jonathan Culler quotes
“Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm
Los Angeles
aka The City of Angels
Simply passing through L.A. in the freeway would reveal this striking fact: The City of Angels is rich with some of the worlds most exotic murals.
Exit off into Silverlake or Boyle Heights and you’re in for quite an illusion. The deeper you venture off into these artsy locations, the heavier the murals get.
From the deep diversity of its enormous ethnic neighborhoods, L.A.’s bridges, walls and freeway over passes have all been converted into concrete canvas for Los Angeles' cultural history and identity.
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