Cy Twombly Quotes

The best art is on the street.

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.

I didn't 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 didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

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

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

Graved inside of it, "Italy".

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.

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.

When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.

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

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.

For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

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

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.

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

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

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

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.

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

I consider myself a multi-platform artist - not just a street artist - but the audience I found through street art has created many of the opportunities I now have on other platforms.

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.