I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
BANKSYI know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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 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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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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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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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.
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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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