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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

— Barry McGee

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

— Cy Twombly

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

— Banksy

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

— Barry McGee

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

— Brad Holland

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

— Banksy

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

— Banksy

Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

— Adam Mansbach

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

— Paloma Picasso

✗Opposing Perspectives

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

— Cy Twombly