Graffiti Quotes · Page 3

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

— Banksy

“Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings.”

— Adam Johnson

Love is like graffiti on the train, Meaning love isn't easy to explain

— Tonedeff

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

— Ben Eine

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

— Ben Eine

“If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.”

— Ron Brackin

“[Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last.”

— Wendy Lichtman

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

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

“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

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another…

— Matthew Slotover

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where…

— Shepard Fairey

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

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

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people…

— Banksy

“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

As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the…

— Harrison Ford

The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media…

— Tony Abbott

“Here's a mystery for you. Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as…

— Charlie Brooker

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us…

— Banksy

But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced…

— Banksy

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

I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on…

— Shinichiro Watanabe

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great.…

— Kenneth Clark

Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

— Kristen Schaal

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

— A.C. Grayling

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

— Anonymous

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.

— Jeffrey Deitch

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

— Melvin Glover

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

— David Berlinski

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

— Anonymous

I hate graffiti. It's not yours - don't draw on it! Is it that hard to comprehend?

— Chad Michael Murray

Anyone who asks if graffiti is really art should be cast out into a field, because they're Neanderthals.

— Goldie

I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid…

— Banksy

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

— Jaron Lanier

Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

— Banksy

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

— Banksy

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

— Bill Jay

Rollin' past graffiti walls, billboards lighting up the block.

— Big Time Rush

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was

— Banksy