Art Graffiti Quotes

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

Jeffrey Deitch

#2. Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#3. I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Isabelle Adjani

#4. You don't have to be rich and famous to have adventures!

Edmond P. DeRousse

#5. 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 to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

Banksy

#6. I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

Black Elk

#7. If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

Melvin Glover

#8. My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

Alec Monopoly

#9. Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Imogen Binnie

#10. Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

Louis Eric Barrier

#11. In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

Candy Chang

#12. -Waiting Time is time of preparation, planning pruning before time of manifestation (time of showing forth)

Ikechukwu Joseph

#13. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)

Agatha Christie

#14. I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

Barry McGee

#15. Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

Banksy

#16. You can achieve great things when depend more on God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

Christy Leigh Stewart

#18. 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 an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.

Malina Suliman

#19. People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly.

Banksy

#20. 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 DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.

Afrika Bambaataa

#21. I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

Mick Ebeling

#22. Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

Banksy

#23. 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 know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

Banksy

#24. 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

#25. Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.

Carla H. Krueger

#26. A clown is a horrible thing to happen to anyone.

Quentin Crisp

#27. Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

Jon Jones

#28. Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

#29. Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

#30. I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.

Eliza Doolittle

#31. I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art and stuff like that, so I wasn't doing any graffiti at that time, so I'd say from about 2000 to 2006, I wasn't doing any graffiti.

Alec Monopoly

#32. He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he'd never let her see how close she'd come to unseating a champion

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#33. A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

Narendra Modi