In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was
Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.
I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation. " Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.
Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation. " Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.
If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?
Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You will never see them again. If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones. " [Bashar] Assad's people rebelled. He crushed them brutally. But his military could not protect him. So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.
Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.
It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it. You have your peers of about 10 guys who know you are the one painting.
One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something. . . It's all about connecting the dots.
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
