Keith Haring Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

I'm hoping that Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art will inspire the next generation of artists the same way that the discovery of subway art inspired me all those years ago.

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.

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.

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

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

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.

The best art is on the street.

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.

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

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

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

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.

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

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

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 have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.

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 inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

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

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.