I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYI’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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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