Graffiti Quotes
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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.'
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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'People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.'
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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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Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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'Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge sic shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.''
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Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.
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The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
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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.
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My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That's his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
