Graffiti Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Clever, Years

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

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• Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fire, Curves, Cities

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• The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fire, Wings, Office

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

  Banksy

  Art, People, House

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

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• Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
  See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
  My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Beach, Rap, Writing

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• 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.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Enemy, Punctuation

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

  David Berlinski

  Legacy, Logic, Monument

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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.

  Mick Ebeling

  Art, Design, Doe

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• T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

  Banksy

  Photography, Progress, Theatre

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

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• 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?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Coal

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• Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

  Banksy

  Apples, Pie, Sick

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

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Writing, Drawing, Stories

  Song: Both Hands, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didnt know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.

  Keith Haring

  New York, Inspiration, Years

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• Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

  Banksy

  Rocks, Space, Giving

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• Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Thinking, Perspective

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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 . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

  Gilbert Adair

  New York, Space, Rude

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way. It's a very young city. It's a vibrant city. It's an exciting city. It's a city that's also scarred by history. I think that's to be celebrated and graffiti is to be celebrated. Graffiti in Berlin is very different than when they spray something on the wall dividing the west bank and Israel. And should be treated as such in Berlin.

  Ian Bremmer

  Wall, Thinking, Together

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Hate, Creativity

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• 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.

  Cy Twombly

  Wall, Writing, Done

  "'I work in waves'". Interview With Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Other Cultures, People

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

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• 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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Rap, Class

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

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• Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

  Ice T

  Artist, Hip Hop, Competition

  Source: collider.com

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

  Barry McGee

  Museums, Embrace, Stills

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

  Wayne LaPierre

  Principles, Constitution, Abandoned

  "NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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