T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BANKSYThe Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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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.
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell 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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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