Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSYBrandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
More Banksy Quotes
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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 don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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 bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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The 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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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