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.
BANKSYIs 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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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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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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.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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