Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers, — Banksy Copy Share Image
“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
Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's… — Johannes Grenzfurthner Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come.… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought… — George Lucas 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
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
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because… — Banksy Copy Share Image
In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only… — Ralph Bakshi 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
The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's… — Ice T 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and… — Swizz Beatz 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
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
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets… — Shepard Fairey 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
“If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with.… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's… — Jonathan Sacks 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
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
“Virus writers are, sociologically, not much different from taggers who spray cryptic symbols on walls, or even the “unofficial” graffiti artists: they… — Peter H. Gregory Copy Share Image
I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson.… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
