Graffiti Quotes - Page 2

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

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

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

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

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

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.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

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

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.

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

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

You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to resonate today.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk about how many mullahs in Pakistan were putting up posters saying, "We follow bin Laden." He even produced a sort of Kodak set of snapshots of graffiti supporting him.

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.

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

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

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.