Big Quote by Banksy

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

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

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

— Barry McGee

Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become a graffiti…

— Banksy

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

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

— Ben Eine

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of…

— KAWS

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an…

— Banksy

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

— Olivier Megaton

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

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

— Bil Keane

Before I was a musician, I drew. The housing projects in Brooklyn weren't much of a canvas, people didn't know that I had it…

— Fabolous