"Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access." - Banksy
"It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say." - M.C. Escher
"The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit." - Banksy
“I’ve got taste. It’s inbred in me.” - David Hasselhoff
"The mind of a man is capableof anything, because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future." - Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924 (Polish-born English Writer)
"I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid." - Paris Hilton (December 2003)
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James, 1842-1910 (American Psychologist and Philosopher)
The artists at Little Scratch are in fact video wizards (actual fully qualified, slightly odd little wizards).
Illustration is defined as “a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work that stresses subject more than form”
“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.” - George W. Bush
The photographers at Little Scratch are a talented bunch which means they can do pretty much anything (or at least anything with a camera).
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." - George W Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
"Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods." - David Sylvester (Art Critic)
"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." - Banksy (English Artist)
Little Scratch also have a fine art section, displaying urban contempory art by artists from a over the world. Free to browse.
"I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life." - Jean Michel Basquiat
"Some men see things as they are and say ‘why?’, I dream things that never were and say ‘why not?’" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950 (Irish dramatist, essayist and critic)
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 (German-born American Physicist)
"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing." - Mark Rothko
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush."
- Sylvestor Stallone, Actor and soon to be paintbrush
- Sylvestor Stallone, Actor and soon to be paintbrush
“You know, it really doesn’t matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” - Donald Trump
Murals, walls, or even entire buildings, basically anything big that needs to look like you mean it!!
"You can't built a reputation on what you're going to do" - Henry Ford, 1863-1947 (American Car Manufacturer)
"At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important." - M.C. Escher
"The mind is an iceberg - it floats with only one seventh of its bulk above water" - Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 (Founder of Phychoanalysis)
"They misunderestimated me."
- George W Bush, Bentonville, Ark., (Nov. 6, 2000)
- George W Bush, Bentonville, Ark., (Nov. 6, 2000)
"What was once thought can never be unthought." - Friedrich Durrenmatt, b. 1921 (Swiss Writter)
"If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm" - Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993 (American Writer and Minister)
