Quotes and Sayings About Graffiti
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Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.
-- Amos Oz -
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.
-- Banksy -
Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that
-- Banksy -
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was
-- Banksy -
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
-- Banksy -
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
-- Banksy -
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
-- Banksy -
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.
-- Banksy -
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
-- Barry McGee -
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
-- David Berlinski -
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.
-- Ichabod -
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
-- Jeffrey Deitch -
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.
-- Jonathan Larson -
I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.
-- Josh Peck -
Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.
-- Kristen Schaal -
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.
-- Louis Eric Barrier -
In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.
-- Malina Suliman -
Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.
-- Randall Dale Adams -
I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.
-- Shepard Fairey -
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.
-- Simon R. Green -
Love is like graffiti on the train, Meaning love isn't easy to explain
-- Tonedeff -
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.
-- Wayne LaPierre -
Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a thin detail, it's not that thin in the realm of things because it's such a big wall. This would take a small paint brush of detail, but on a huge wall, if that's the size of a building, the thinnest detail is still that big, it's a quick spray. Spray paint is easiest for me. I love spray paint.
-- Alec Monopoly -
I always try to find time to do some graffiti here and there, but most of the time, I have so many walls that are given to me now, so anytime I want to go out and do something illegal, I can just do it legally.
-- Alec Monopoly -
One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.
-- Kim Rossmo -
Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.
-- Matthew Slotover
