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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”

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Author:Banksy

“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.”

Ifs Whole Happens Waiting Cities Quality Fire Areas Property Neighborhood Elsewhere Curves Garbage Graffiti Waiting For Something

Author:Terry Pratchett

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

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Author:Banksy

“A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.”

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Book:You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

Source: You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

“But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.”

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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

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

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Author:Banksy

“May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.”

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

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“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.”

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Author:Keith Haring

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

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Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“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?”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“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.”

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Book:Myths & memories

Source: Myths & memories

“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.”

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.”

Wanted Artist Names Crazy South Tag Graffiti Bronx Graffiti Artist

Author:Swizz Beatz

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

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Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.”

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Author:Duff Goldman

“Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.”

Art Written Media Students Entertainment Rhyme Blueprints Graffiti Nuisance

Author:Louis Eric Barrier

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