Trivia: 07/02/12 Grafiiti

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do."
HINT: (1899-1973), Irish novelist and short story writer.

RANDOM TIDBITS

A single drawing or inscription on a wall, door, or other surface is technically a graffito. Graffiti is the plural form of this word and the one most commonly used today in both the singular and plural contexts.
The cover of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album depicts two buildings at 96/98 St. Mark's Place in Manhattan. Those visiting the location may be surprised to see five-story buildings because those on the cover only had four stories. The photo was specially cropped to "remove" one of the floors so that the image would fit squarely on the album cover.
Statistics reveal that more than half the graffiti that crops up in major cities is put there by teenage boys.
Since Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991, "fans" have scrawled thousands of items of graffiti on the brick walls in front of his mansion in the Kensington area of London. In fact, the walls have been pressure-cleaned so many times that the brickwork is beginning to deteriorate.
Most laws requiring persons to be 18 years of age to buy spray paint were initially enacted to cut down on graffiti. Today, those same laws serve a second purpose: to help curtail incidents of "huffing" or the purposeful inhaling of aerosols.
The cast of George Lucas's 1973 motion picture American Graffiti included four actors who would go on to become sitcom stars later that decade: Ron Howard (Happy Days), Mackenzie Phillips (One Day at a Time), Suzanne Somers (Three's Company), and Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley).

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do."
ANSWER: Elizabeth Bowen.