Jorja Smith

When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.

English Musician

Goldie

I think drum'n'bass music did for the electronic world what graffiti did for the world of art because it was raw and everybody wanted to take from the raw.

British Musician

Mick Ebeling

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.

American Producer

Jeffrey Deitch

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

American Businessman

Banksy

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

English Artist

Ben Eine

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

Olivier Megaton

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

French Director

Adam Mansbach

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

American Author

Gordon B. Hinckley

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

American Clergyman

Adrien Brody

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.

American Actor

Graffiti is a way people express themselves in public spaces, but it's often unauthorized.

Public Expression

Some see graffiti as art; others as damage. How it is viewed can depend on the context.

Art or Vandalism

Graffiti can reflect social and political messages, influencing public opinion and culture.

Cultural Impact

Be aware that creating graffiti is illegal in many places and can lead to punishment.

Legality Issues

Graffiti is studied in sociology and art as a form of urban expression and resistance.

Academic Study

While contemporary, graffiti has historical roots seen in ancient doodles on walls.

Historical Presence

'To graffiti' is a less common verb form referring to the act of making such marks.

Action Verb

Using 'graffiti' as a verb usually implies an active choice to defy norms or laws.

Active Defiance

 And most importantly, when you put big kids together with little kids, you get the big fat white guy out of the middle, which is cool, and you create this kind of accountability amongst peers, which is incredible. God, I'm going to run out of time, so I've gotta keep it moving. But this is my weekly paycheck for kids; that's our green graffiti. This is what we're doing.

Stephen Ritz: A teacher...

 graffiti artists, musicians, and when there's an issue in the country, we come together, we brainstorm, and take up on that issue. So our most powerful tool is art, because we live in a very busy world where people are so busy in their life, and they don't have time to read. So we package our activism and we package our message in art.

Boniface Mwangi: The day...

 to be afraid of instead it's a constantly shifting and evolving counterculture and this is actually part of the media scape itself in other words it's part of the mainstream so in many ways this is a like the internet's version of graffiti and this story doesn't end there nothing is ever simple

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 So TEMPT is now completely paralyzed. He only has use of his eyes. I was exposed to him. 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. And so we decided that we were going to sponsor

Mick Ebeling: The...

 graffiti artists likewise challenged established boundaries of public property. They reclaimed subway cars, billboards, and even once went so far as to paint an elephant in the city zoo. Political movements, too, have used wall writing to visually spread their messages.

Is graffiti art? Or...

 property and put up security cameras so we did that and that helped but it's still people were coming on the property at one point we had an individual spray painting graffiti on the house the purchase of sugarloaf mound shows that it's possible to put indigenous

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 testifying to the human capacity for creativity thousands of years before writing. They are a distinct visual language that imagines the world outside the self, just like modern art forms, from graffiti and painting to animated virtual-reality caves.

Explore cave paintings...

 not always in a good way, but they do. What about art? Could art change the world? I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world. I was doing graffiti --

Use art to turn the...

 It basically means to be human and to do the right thing. And with that, what this graffiti says is, "High-tech schmigh-tech. The most important thing is to be a mensch." Thank you.

Shimon Schocken: The...

 all birds actually because they've got nice turquoise as no oranges in their feathers and I like to use those colors together a lot my name is pornographic and I'm graffiti artist