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.
BANKSYIf Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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