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.
BANKSYWhen you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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The 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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