Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSY
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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 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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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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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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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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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