Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSYAlthough you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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