© 2002
Etoile Documentary Group

There are those who like the murals...

	"Here's people who haven't been trained and they're handed a two-story high gable wall and someone says, paint a picture on that, I think that's remarkable." Bill - Historian
	"There's a whole debate going on whether this is art or not. Of course it's art. We fit all the criteria of what art should be: We deal with people's emotions, we make people think, we get a reaction to what we do." Danny - Muralist
	"It's not pandering to a middle class cultural elite. Nobody walking around with a glass of wine and piece of cheese. It's there for the public, it's there for the people, it's there for the working class." Tommy - Muralist

...and others who don't.

"Very few painters will tell you it's great art - I think really the murals are essentially propaganda" Joe - Artist
"While I asked for them to be painted out I couldn't imagine who was going to do the job, I couldn't imagine anyone up on a ladder doing that and coming down alive." Carmel - Teacher
"I really can't divorce them from graffiti. I see them as colored graffiti." Joe - Artist