Street Art Graffiti Quotes & Sayings

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways. — Pico Iyer

There is no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you. — Octavia E. Butler

I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women. — Eliza Doolittle

YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASKED NOT — Kevan L. Waiters

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly. — Banksy

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't. — Michael Moriarty

Her words echoed in his head and a faint hope kindled and grew into a timid blaze. Whosoever. Anyone can be forgiven by God. — Victoria Lynn

If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education" ... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board ... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process. — Paul Krugman

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them? — Jonathan Kozol

Since I have abandoned the idea of regular lessons, I find that Helen learns much faster. I am convinced that the time spent by the teacher digging out of the child what she has put into him, for the sake of satisfying herself that it has taken root, is so much time thrown away. It's much better, I think, to assume that the child is doing his part, and that the seed you have sown will bear fruit in due time. — Helen Keller

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel De Montaigne

The history of the mind is not a linear history. Each epoch has its "Age of Reason" and its "Fall." The — John Knight Lundwall

Everything is progress... — Akosua Dardaine Edwards

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. — Malina Suliman

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress — Tom Stoppard

Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules. — Raymond Salvatore Harmon