Graffiti Quotes: top 85 famous quotes about Graffiti

Graffiti Quotes & Sayings

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Why didn't vandals ever quote Shakespeare? I'd love to see graffiti in iambic pentameter. — J.A. Konrath

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious. — Christy Leigh Stewart

Comment sections on the internet is like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like nonsense and it's ugly to look at. — Michael P. Naughton

Someone had scrawled graffiti in black marker on the metal: JUST DIE, it said. Like it was easy. — Neil Gaiman

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. — Banksy

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

I wanna spray this fucking wall with cum graffiti. — Kendall Grey

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it. — Banksy

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

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. — Randall Dale Adams

The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration. — William Gibson

This goes out to freedom fighters, graffiti writers, innocent lifers, grassroots organizers — Talib Kweli

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. — Cy Twombly

Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings. — Adam Johnson

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game. — Barry McGee

The world had been sanitized like Disney had done to Times Square. They had gotten rid of God, family, and country along with the graffiti. — Michael J. Sullivan

gray hair is gods graffiti — Bill Cosby

Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible. — Andrei Cherny

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately. — Jeffrey Deitch

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene. — Adam Mansbach

The deeper we go, the fewer the lights, the dirtier the buildings, the stranger the animals, but the more brilliant the graffiti. — Pierce Brown

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

As fussy as they were about cleanliness and order, the Swiss seemed to Anna to be rather lax about graffiti. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

I look across at the line of the city. The nights are mean in this place, full of smog that eats the stars. 'Who does feel hope around here? — Cath Crowley

Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls — Khaled Hosseini

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop. — Hunter S. Thompson

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres. — Gia Coppola

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch

The usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint. — Anthony Horowitz

Fight Apathy! ... or don't. — Fallout New Vegas Graffiti

The walls were covered with graffiti and William passed the time correcting the spelling — Terry Pratchett

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist. — Mia Kirshner

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

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. — Adam Mansbach

spattering the walls with pulp and guano, like graffiti artists. — Henri Cole

Love and romance are things worth waiting for. — Cath Crowley

Love is like graffiti on the train,
Meaning love isn't easy to explain — Tonedeff

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. — Banksy

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it. — Barry McGee

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

Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies. — Kristen Schaal

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The first day of school, we walked till we reached a stretch of black graffiti on the sidewalk. Somebody named Ken blew dead bears, it said. — Mary Karr

The comment section of the internet is like gang graffiti, it makes no sense and is ugly to look at. — Michael P. Naughton

I know about graffiti,' I say, and the words come out as if I'm an old lady saying she likes the hip-hop. — Cath Crowley

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. — Duff Goldman

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward. — Ben Eine

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser. — Mike Mills

If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them. — Ron Brackin

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance. — Louis Eric Barrier

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy — Michael Ondaatje

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

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration. — A.C. Grayling

A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier. — Asne Seierstad

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

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world. — Olivier Megaton

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

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something ... It's all about connecting the dots. — Kim Rossmo

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

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. — Banksy

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. — George Lucas

Don't you think it's sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls? — Cole Gibsen

Even graffiti above a tunnel can begin a journey that never ends. — Gloria Steinem

[Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last. — Wendy Lichtman

graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW. Colin wondered whether Dana provided fellatio or cocaine, — John Green

a piece of graffiti scrawled on a Brazilian train read: "Those who petition for divorce use the ink of their children's tears". — Anonymous

Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules. — Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit. — Stephen King

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. — Josh Peck

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists. — Carla H. Krueger

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

Our children will be told what Israel has done.' graffiti on the Wall in Bethlehem, opposite Aida refugee camp, 2008 — William Parry

I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there. — Paloma Picasso

Well, all girls called Beth are arse grabbers. — Cath Crowley

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive. — Cy Twombly

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

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

I'm a melting pot of frienship. — Ghost

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time? — Melvin Glover

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti. — Sally Brampton

graffiti on a Creggan wall would have answered her: "I knew Raymond Gilmour. Thank fuck he didn't know me. — Raymond Gilmour

Walls tagged with graffiti (one such piece of tagging: a stencil of a familiar Sith Lord's helmet with the phrase beneath it reading VADER LIVES). — Chuck Wendig