You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSYI 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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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