Art Quote by Mike Mills

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 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 know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

— Josh Peck

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

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

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

Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do…

— Ben Eine

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

— Ice T

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

“I laugh at the way some people think graffiti is all selfish tagging and vandalism. Thoughtful street art is like good fiction – it…

— Carla H. Krueger

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