Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I hate graffiti. It's not yours - don't draw on it! Is it that hard to comprehend?

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

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

My dear, I don't give a damn.

She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

Now, I don't know much about art, but I know desecration when I see it.

You pissed on my rug.

The best art is on the street.

Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

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

In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.

Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way. It's a very young city. It's a vibrant city. It's an exciting city. It's a city that's also scarred by history. I think that's to be celebrated and graffiti is to be celebrated. Graffiti in Berlin is very different than when they spray something on the wall dividing the west bank and Israel. And should be treated as such in Berlin.

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.

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.

People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

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