Quotes About Graffiti Is Art

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

Melvin Glover

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Banksy

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

Louis Eric Barrier

#6. She's pretty in an unsophisticated way, like a Midwestern farm girl, and you can see the wide-open prairies behind her, the blue-skied meadows in her eyes.

Jonathan Tropper

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

Lewis Mumford

#10. Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

#11. 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

#12. We don't have a lot of time to practice, but yeah, we need to find a keyboard over there, or else I need to bring one. We're intending to do so. I don't want to let you down and say that we 100% are, but yes, we're intending to do so.

Theresa Wayman

#13. I love Louisiana, and I love being from there.

Katherine LaNasa

#14. Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

Tucker Max

#15. Ensure compliance and be responsive to the feedback.

Anne McLellan

#16. 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

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

Banksy

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

Christy Leigh Stewart

#19. 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

#20. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butler

#21. We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Victoria pushed it open the rest of the way and stepped inside. She left it open in case she needed to make a quick exit. The fact that she had to think about things like quick exits infuriated her.

Claire Legrand

#23. My nerves did a jitter dance, stuck between two wolves.

Jazz Feylynn

#24. A garden is half made when it is well planned.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. My wildest dreams are when I'm wide awake

Kevin Durant

#28. 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

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

Carla H. Krueger

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Jeffrey Deitch

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

Banksy

#34. This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#35. There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

Letitia Baldrige