Art Quote by Alec Monopoly

I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for…

— Keith Haring

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time…

— Kurt Wagner

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

— Banksy

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where…

— Alec Monopoly

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

— Martin Mull

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 doing it.…

— KAWS

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted…

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Olivier Megaton

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

— Robert Indiana

In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said,…

— Malina Suliman

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

— Ryan McGinley