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.
BANKSYThe greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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