Street Art Quotes

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

  Banksy

  Art, Wall, Graffiti

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• 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.

  Banksy

  Wall, Party, Bus Stops

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• Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

  Banksy

  Hipster, Graffiti, Speak

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

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• I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

  Banksy

  Art, Animal, Wild And Free

  Source: www.timeout.com

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

  Banksy

  Graffiti, Tools, Banging Your Head

  "Objectified" by Joe Winkler, www.guernicamag.com. October 22, 2013.

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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• It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

  Invader

  Art, Attention, World

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

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• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

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

  Banksy

  People, Ironic, Graffiti

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

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• I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

  Invader

  Art, Thinking, Illegal

  "Artist Interview: ‘Invader’ on Hong Kong’s ‘Wipe Out’, street art policy – Exclusive". urban-dna.org. May, 2015.

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

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Stars, People

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Order, People

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, Graffiti

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

  Banksy

  Art, Morning, War

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

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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, Graffiti, Littles

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• I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.

  Invader

  Art, Nice, Opportunity

  "Artist Interview: ‘Invader’ on Hong Kong’s ‘Wipe Out’, street art policy – Exclusive". urban-dna.org. May, 2015.

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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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• 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, Graffiti

  "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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