“I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department. — Banksy Copy Share Image
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to… — Banksy 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
When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But… — Ice T 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
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
The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
“Thirty years of overlapping graffiti covered the walls. The individual messages were mostly incoherent, but then perhaps the individual messages were of… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
“Fitzhugh wasn’t immune to the desire that’s in most people to spray graffiti on the cold rock of the world and say… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical. — Cy Twombly 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
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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“And I look at him because he needs to be looked at. He needs to be seen. I hate that he has… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
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
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
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
