I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYAll graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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