“I laugh at the way some people think graffiti is all selfish tagging and vandalism. Thoughtful street art is like good fiction… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in… — Ian Bremmer 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
“There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every… — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else. — Banksy Copy Share Image
I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more. — 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
Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough. — Banksy Copy Share Image
“If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like… — Banksy 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
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
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… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as… — Shepard Fairey 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
If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time? — Melvin Glover Copy Share Image
Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable.… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
“They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and… — Mick Ebeling Copy Share Image