Graffiti Quotes

92 Graffiti quotes by 54 unique authors

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find… — Mike Mills
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. — Banksy
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world… — Banksy
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 I'd known that… — Banksy
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else. — Banksy
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves. — Banksy
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you… — Banksy
It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department. — Banksy
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the… — Banksy
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies,… — Frederick Buechner
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly. — Banksy
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look… — Banksy
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the… — Janet Fitch
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people… — Banksy
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders… — Banksy
Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it… — David Sedaris
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. — Banksy
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in -… — Banksy
Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours… — Banksy
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you… — Banksy
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As… — Simon R. Green
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the… — Francesca Lia Block
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie. — Banksy
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your… — Banksy

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