Crime Quote by Ryan McGinley Download Open image “I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.” — Ryan McGinley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Graffiti Life Writing
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 Copy Share Image
I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it. — Banksy Copy Share Image
When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like,… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
