Quotes About Graffiti

The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration.

Like when she told me in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves. She'd use this rule to explain human nature: we desecrate in protest, we're afraid of people taking our stuff, and we worship ourselves.

The desktop held a patina of hieroglyphs representing years of student boredom—names and initials gouged into the wood, blackened by grime and pencil, shellacked over, then cobwebbed again with another generation's imprint.

Pirate radio is like street art.

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.

just a cement culvert tagged with indignant graffiti, a trickle of sour shallow water rippling through

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

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

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

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

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

Graffiti, Dimitri explained

What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.

I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, 'I want to do that... how do you do that?'

So now we know the truth', Al said. 'Is it the truth?' Al said, 'Sure. Obviously.' 'What a hell of a way to learn it. From the wall of a men's room.' He felt bitter resentment rather than anything else. 'That's how graffiti is; harsh and direct.

Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.

Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water.... In the scream of a flood, consummate carvings are left behind. Careful scallops are taken from the faces of canyons. This is not random work. It is artistry distilled from madness.

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.

Scars - the graffiti of violence. - Harry Dresden