Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Although 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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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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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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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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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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