Graffiti Street Art Quotes

#1. For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

Barry McGee

#2. We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

Benedict Joseph Labre

#3. Across from the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Seventh Street, we sat in the back of a graffiti-covered white box truck watching the world go by on the surveillance vehicle's hidden high-def camera. So far there had been no sign of the thieves. Or even Audrey Hepburn.

James Patterson

#4. I walk down the center of the street in our old neighborhood. I recognize the cracked building with the graffiti of an angel that has the words 'Who will guard against the guardians?

Susan Ee

#5. No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Edmund Burke

#6. If she could only find a well-educated, Shakespeare-quoting bad boy who still had a thing for sexy tatoos and maybe a mild leather fetish, she might at least have a shot at avoiding her probable future as a crazy old cat lady.

Kendra Leigh Castle

#7. Just put on the lens and go.

Miroslav Tichy

#8. 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

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

Banksy

#10. 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

#11. A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier.

Asne Seierstad

#12. As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

Tracy Chevalier

#13. Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

Jeffrey Deitch

#14. Can I tell you something ... ? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

Brad Meltzer

#15. Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.

Stephen King

#16. It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

James Patterson

#17. 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

#18. New York is the greatest city in the world.

Anna Wood