Art Quote by Ben Eine

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 got bored…

— Ben Eine

Graffiti art brings you back to your human skills - your spirit and what your being is really about.

— KRS-One

Art has absolutely changed my life.

— Peter Weller

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

— Paul Simon

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in…

— Mick Ebeling

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

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

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't…

— Barry McGee

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained…

— LeRoy Neiman

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

— Edi Rama

All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why…

— Malina Suliman

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

— Banksy