Graffiti Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Crazy, Artist, Names

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• Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

  Shepard Fairey

  Artist, Streets, Populist

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• The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

  Banksy

  Negativity, Negative People, Grumbling

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• It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it. You have your peers of about 10 guys who know you are the one painting.

  KAWS

  People, Guy, Peers

  Source: www.freshnessmag.com

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• His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

  Jonathan Larson

  Wall, Achievement, Rooms

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• Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.

  Orson Welles

  Wall, Believe, Creativity

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• Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a thin detail, it's not that thin in the realm of things because it's such a big wall. This would take a small paint brush of detail, but on a huge wall, if that's the size of a building, the thinnest detail is still that big, it's a quick spray. Spray paint is easiest for me. I love spray paint.

  Alec Monopoly

  Wall, Details, Size

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

  Banksy

  Art, Creativity, Mind

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• Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Littles, Fields

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• Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become a graffiti artist so I could have somebody else tell me what to do. If you're the type who gets sentimental about people scribbling over your stuff, I suggest graffiti is probably not the right hobby for you.

  Banksy

  Good Luck, Artist, People

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

  Duff Goldman

  Artist, Law, Dumb

  "Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High" by Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter how many companies are putting millions and millions of dollars into marketing it, it's always going to be some Mexican kid on a corner in Echo Park that changes the rules of the game.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Kids, Echoes, Games

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

  Banksy

  Trying, World, Enough

  "Banksy Was Here". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

  Banksy

  Artist, Self, Views

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• The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.

  Kenneth Clark

  Character, White, Drawing

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's side by side. When you do that, you take it from the very elevated level of interfaith dialogue to the street level of neighbors. You get them working side by side, and they become friends. Friendship sometimes counts for more than interfaith agreement or understanding. Friendship is deeply human.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Christian, Drug, Understanding

  Source: sojo.net

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• 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

  Art, Men, Said

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

  Banksy

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.

  Banksy

  Artist, Used, Mets

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• Gray hair is God's graffiti.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

  Jaron Lanier

  Wall, Rap, Sound

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto”, p.136, Penguin UK

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• Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

  Mia Kirshner

  Sunset, Artist, Sky

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• I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

  Clare Balding

  Extraordinary Person, World, Want

  "Clare Balding: 'I want to make the world better, for women mainly'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2013.

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• There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

  Banksy

  Art, Sex, Revenge

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