Graffiti Art Quotes

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

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.

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.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

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.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

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

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

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.

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

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

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

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

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

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

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.

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.

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.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.