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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
BanksyBanksy Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BanksyBanksy It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BanksyBanksy People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BanksyBanksy Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BanksyBanksy Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BanksyBanksy It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BanksyBanksy When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BanksyBanksy The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BanksyBanksy I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
BanksyBanksy I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BanksyBanksy You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy 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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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
Chogyam TrungpaChogyam Trungpa Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
Rollo MayRollo May If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
Bram StokerBram Stoker When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
William FeatherWilliam Feather When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what’s going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.
Kyrie IrvingKyrie Irving The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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