Graffiti Is Not Art Quotes

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

Louis Eric Barrier

#2. Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.

Frank Fairfield

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

Christy Leigh Stewart

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

Banksy

#5. 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

#6. Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.

Jason Myers

#7. He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.

Richard Pryor

#8. You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.

Curtis Joseph

#9. You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.

Sally J. Pla

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Melvin Glover

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

Emma Rigby

#16. Roses denote grace.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#17. As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

Michelle Obama

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

Banksy

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Banksy

#22. You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

Richard LaGravenese

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

Jeffrey Deitch

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Carla H. Krueger

#27. [S]he hardly deserved to be labeled a witch.'
'I find it hard to believe anyone could take such a thing seriously. This isn't the Dark Ages.'
'All ages are dark, Hayden,' Grey said gently.

Connie Brockway

#28. The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Richard Allen

#29. 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

#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. There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Samuel Johnson