If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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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 just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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