Graffiti Quotes - Page 2

• When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Thinking, Plant

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• All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.

  Malina Suliman

  Wall, Rights, Voice

  "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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• 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

  Art, Wall, Mean

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• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Negative

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• I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.

  Banksy

  Thinking, Should Have, Looks

  "Should You Pay Money to Look at Graffiti? Banksy Doesn’t Think So" by Samantha Oltman, www.motherjones.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

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• The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Communication, People

  Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• 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.

  Banksy

  Life, Death, Time

  The Sun, 2010.

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• The people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.... any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you ,, its yours to take, rearrange and re use.Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

  Banksy

  Running, Thinking, Rocks

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• The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning the graffiti off buildings, we stopped supporting our cultural institutions and building parks and schools and all those kinds of things.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Mistake, School, Parks

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. September 21, 2008.

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

  Banksy

  People, Mind, Three

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

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

  Banksy

  Mother, Children, Parenting

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

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

  Banksy

  Cheating, Art, Deep Thought

  "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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

  Ryan McGinley

  Crime

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

  Margaret Beckett

  Cities, Community, Environmental

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

  Banksy

  War, Levels, Revolution

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• Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

  Banksy

  Real, Oil, People

  "Banksy: The Graffitist Goes Straight". www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2009.

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• You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Winning, Race

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

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

  Banksy

  People, Police, Feelings

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• The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media and yet it is there for everyone to see. It is kind of like electronic graffiti. The political process is accelerated and intense in a way that I don't believe it ever really has been before.

  Tony Abbott

  Believe, Media, Political

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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  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.

  Banksy

  Art, Lying, People

  Martin Bull, Banksy (2011). “Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from Around the U.K.”, p.144, PM Press

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• A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Tattoo, Body, Temples

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• 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.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Causes, Blogging

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• In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

  Lyman Abbott

  New York, Space, Rude

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