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Graffiti Artist Inspirational Quotes (131)

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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
Banksy
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.
Shepard Fairey
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There are four basic human needs food, sleep, sex and revenge.
Banksy
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
Banksy
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I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.
Shepard Fairey
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I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.
Shepard Fairey
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Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.
JR
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The Internet hasn't had a chance to really get to where people look at it with the proper level of scrutiny. There's so much bullshit on the Internet. It doesn't get filtered out because it's such a new medium.
Shepard Fairey
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Keep your coins, I want change.
Banksy
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
Banksy
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
Banksy
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I think the Internet has definitely made it easier for people to have stuff seen, but it's also encouraged a level of ADD, where you see so much that if it doesn't make an impact on you immediately, you don't look at it.
Shepard Fairey
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
Banksy
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
Banksy
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To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.
JR
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
Banksy
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You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.
Banksy
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
Banksy
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I start a picture and I finish it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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There's always a lot that's making me angry, but it won't tie into the election. I mean nothing against Hilary Clinton. I agree with Hilary on most issues, but campaign finance structure makes me very angry, because it means that politicians are going to have to raise a huge amount of money, which narrows the field dramatically.
Shepard Fairey
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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
Banksy
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The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
Shepard Fairey
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