Street Art Quotes
The best sayings about Street Art that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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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.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.
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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.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
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When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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.
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I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.
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I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There's no gallery show or book or film. It's pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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The Internet wasn't even an option for me, so one of the reasons I was so motivated to do street art was because there was no other outlet. Maybe if the Internet had been around then, I would have tried to do stuff that went viral and was clever and got me a lot of hits.
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I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
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I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
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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.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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