A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSYI wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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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.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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.
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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.
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