I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYAt this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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