Top 70 My Graffiti Sayings
#1. The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.
Ice-T
#2. My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
Mike Mills
#3. 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
#5. a piece of graffiti scrawled on a Brazilian train read: "Those who petition for divorce use the ink of their children's tears".
Anonymous
#6. Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
Cy Twombly
#7. There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.
Steve Coogan
#9. 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
#10. Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings.
Adam Johnson
#11. For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
Adam Mansbach
#12. Swearing, drunkenness, "haunting bad houses," fighting, and drawing graffiti - hugh penises were a favourite - on the palace walls were all punishable by warnings,
Alison Weir
#13. The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
Barry McGee
#14. There was a great jagged hole where they had ripped out the fireplace; the wall around it was crowded with faded graffiti explain who loved who, who was gay and who should fuck off.
Tana French
#15. I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.
Swizz Beatz
#16. For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.
Richard Phillips
#17. Our children will be told what Israel has done.' graffiti on the Wall in Bethlehem, opposite Aida refugee camp, 2008
William Parry
#18. The first day of school, we walked till we reached a stretch of black graffiti on the sidewalk. Somebody named Ken blew dead bears, it said.
Mary Karr
#19. I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.
James Franco
#20. I was here but now I'm gone
I left my name to carry on
Those who liked me
Liked me well
Those who didn't can go to hell'"
-The bathroom wall
E.M. Crane
#21. 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 doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.
Keith Haring
#22. Someone had scrawled graffiti in black marker on the metal: JUST DIE, it said. Like it was easy.
Neil Gaiman
#23. Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.
Stephen King
#24. Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.
Andrei Cherny
#25. He refuses to sell his paintings and writes "NOT FOR SALE" on some of them. He is furious because people are writing about his ghetto childhood and call him a "graffiti artist" and "primitive." "They don't invent a childhood for white artists," he says.
Jennifer Clement
#26. Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
Banksy
#27. In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.
DJ Spooky
#28. Do not try to be pretty. You weren't meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don't let anyone ever simplify you to just "pretty.""
- Things I Wish My Mother Had Taught Me
Suzanne Rivard
#29. His face is more open than an open book, like a wall of graffiti really. I realize I'm writing wow on my thigh with my finger, decide I better open my mouth and snap us out of this impromptu staring contest.
Jandy Nelson
#30. I read the graffiti written on the walls of my brain. Then I use my writing to give it voice so it won't simply be "whispered in the sounds of silence." (Apologies to Paul Simon)
Dick Peterson
#31. 'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!
Jean Reno
#32. I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
Paloma Picasso
#33. 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
#34. I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.
Jean Reno
#35. I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.
Gia Coppola
#36. My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint masterpieces. They think they will die, small and forgotten, and it dictates their every action.
Thomm Quackenbush
#37. Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.
Ariel Pink
#38. His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.
Jonathan Larson
#39. Even graffiti above a tunnel can begin a journey that never ends.
Gloria Steinem
#40. It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.
Ichabod
#42. I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.
JR
#43. 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
#44. On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.
Paul Goldberger
#45. The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
Adam Mansbach
#46. Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.
Rudy Giuliani
#47. 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
#48. None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.
George Lucas
#49. Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.
Thornton Wilder
#50. Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy
Michael Ondaatje
#51. I spray the sky fast. Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don't want to be here. Paint sails and the things that kick in my head scream from can to brick. See this, see this. See me emptied onto a wall.
Cath Crowley
#52. There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.
Eduardo Galeano
#53. I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it,
Banksy
#54. 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
#55. I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
Olivier Megaton
#56. spattering the walls with pulp and guano, like graffiti artists.
Henri Cole
#57. Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.
Kristen Schaal
#58. [Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last.
Wendy Lichtman
#59. When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti.
Wayne LaPierre
#60. When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
Bill Jay
#61. Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.
Pharoahe Monch
#62. Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.
Amos Oz
#63. The comment section of the internet is like gang graffiti, it makes no sense and is ugly to look at.
Michael P. Naughton
#64. I wanna spray this fucking wall with cum graffiti.
Kendall Grey
#65. Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.
Frederick Buechner
#66. He hurried back. Walls seemed to shift and advance. Right here, it must be. Wasn't this passage too short? No, it wasn't a wall that blocked his way, only fog. The fog retreated before him - then at once yielded up a wall. Staggering crimson letters caught in the web of graffiti spelled KILLER.
Ramsey Campbell
#67. One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something ... It's all about connecting the dots.
Kim Rossmo
#68. If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.
Cath Crowley
#69. The walls were covered with graffiti and William passed the time correcting the spelling
Terry Pratchett
#70. Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.
Gavin Turk
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