Graffiti famous quotes
05-20-2025
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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 -
You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to resonate today.
-- Peter van Agtmael -
I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.
-- Sally Brampton -
When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
-- Bill Jay -
If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?
-- Melvin Glover -
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
-- Barry McGee -
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.
-- KAWS
