Graffiti Quotes

92 Graffiti quotes by 54 unique authors

But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way.… — Banksy
Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that — Banksy
HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT… — Afrika Bambaataa
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're… — Rob Brezsny
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. — Ani DiFranco
I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing… — Keith Haring
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers, — Banksy
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not… — Gilbert Adair
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. — Josh Peck
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. — Barry McGee
I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I… — Swizz Beatz
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. — Duff Goldman
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance. — Louis Eric Barrier
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 education… — Banksy
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what… — Ralph Bakshi
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 I… — Malina Suliman
In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm… — Malina Suliman
Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. — Randall Dale Adams
A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Gray hair is God's graffiti. — Bill Cosby
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. — George Lucas
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or… — George Lucas

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