Best Graffiti Art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Ralph Bakshi

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

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Author:Clare Balding

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

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Author:Banksy

“Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.”

Author:Calvin Coolidge

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

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Author:Banksy

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

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“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.”

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

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Author:Banksy

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

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“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.”

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“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.”

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

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

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Author:Banksy

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

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“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.”

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Book:Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from Around the U.K.

Source: Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from Around the U.K.

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

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Author:Banksy

“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.”

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

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Author:Banksy

“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.”

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.”

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Author:Banksy

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

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Author:Banksy

“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.”

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Author:Banksy

“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.”

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Author:Banksy

“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.”

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

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

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Author:Banksy

“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.”

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Author:Afrika Bambaataa

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