Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSYIf 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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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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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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