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
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
“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
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
Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates… — Rudy Giuliani 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
Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was… — JR 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
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
I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I always try to find time to do some graffiti here and there, but most of the time, I have so many… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward. — Ben Eine 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
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's… — KAWS 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
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
“Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are… — Thornton Wilder 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
I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. — George Lucas 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
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
The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great.… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
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 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
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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