Basquiat Quote by Keith Haring

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

— Banksy

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

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

— Ryan McGinley

Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than…

— Robert Montgomery

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

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

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

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

— Olivier Megaton

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 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

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture…

— Banksy