Graffiti Art Quotes:

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

- Banksy

topic: Wall, Party, Cities, Street Art, Wall And Piece

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

- Banksy

source: "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

topic: People, Graffiti, Done, Street Art, Wall And Piece

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

- Banksy

topic: Hipster, Graffiti, Speak, Street Art, Wall And Piece

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

- Banksy

source: "Objectified" by Joe Winkler, www.guernicamag.com. October 22, 2013.

topic: Graffiti, Tools, Street Art, Wall And Piece, Banging Your Head

HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.

- Afrika Bambaataa

topic: Art, Fun, Rap, Graffiti Art

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

- Banksy

topic: Mother, Children, Parenting, Street Art, Wall And Piece

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

- Banksy

source: Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

topic: Art, Order, People, Massacres, Street Art

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Hate, Creativity, Street Art, Wall And Piece

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Creativity, Mind, Street Art, Wall And Piece

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.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Littles, Fields, Street Art, Modern Art

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

- Banksy

topic: Cheating, Art, Graffiti, Street Art, Wall And Piece

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

topic: Art, People, Graffiti, Vandalism, Street Art

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

- Clare Balding

source: "Clare Balding: 'I want to make the world better, for women mainly'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2013.

topic: World, Want, Social Entrepreneurship, Famine, Street Art

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

- Banksy

topic: Art, Wall, Weapons, Street Art, Wall And Piece

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

- Banksy

topic: People, Police, Feelings, Street Art, Wall And Piece

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Lying, People, Street Art, Wall And Piece

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

- Banksy

topic: Sex, Revenge, Sleep, Street Art, Wall And Piece

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

- Banksy

topic: Life, Beautiful, Kings, Street Art, Think Outside The Box

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

- Banksy

topic: Mean, Breathing, Names, Street Art, Wall And Piece

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

- Banksy

topic: Art, People, House, Street Art, Wall And Piece

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Order, Needs, Street Art, Graffiti Art

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

- Banksy

source: Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

topic: Art, Other Cultures, People, Wall And Piece, Graffiti Art

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

source: Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

- Banksy

source: Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

topic: Art, Clever, Years, Street Art, Wall And Piece

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Morning, War, Street Art, Wall And Piece

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Guy, Want, Graffiti Art

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.

- Banksy

topic: Art, People, Graffiti, Vandalism, Graffiti Art

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

- Ralph Bakshi

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Rap, Class, Public Art, Graffiti Art