Graffiti Quotes

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Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was

Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.

It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it. You have your peers of about 10 guys who know you are the one painting.

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.