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… — Ice T Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted… — Mia Kirshner Copy Share Image
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me… — Ichabod Copy Share Image
One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots. — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
The argument that most lawmakers make about graffiti is that it's illegal because it's an eyesore, but you could easily argue that… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“The graffiti on display was a microcosm of the world outside. Undying vows of love, initials entwined. Hatreds twisted into tight, hard… — Laura Elliot Copy Share Image
Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with… — Banksy Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art… — Raymond Salvatore Harmon Copy Share Image
Graffiti is art, but you don't see graffiti in the National Gallery. Graffiti is on the street - that's where it belongs. — Jme Copy Share Image
“Some spray-painted graffiti on the wall asks, Is it nothing to you all who pass by? Lamentations 1:12 and I think, No,… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
“I was here but now I'm gone I left my name to carry on Those who liked me Liked me well Those… — E.M. Crane Copy Share Image
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on… — Imogen Binnie Copy Share Image
Like this if you think graffiti is a beautiful artwork, or Unlike this if you think graffiti is just shitty vandalism . — Mariana Copy Share Image
To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“Here it is, all at once: rightness. Not the graffiti itself, even though it's undeniably spectacular, but this feeling of making plans… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
“The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become… — Banksy Copy Share Image
In some places - particularly in Asia and Europe - you often see anti-government graffiti, seditious slogans, banners, leaflets, in certain neighbourhoods.… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image