Live as a villain, die as a hero
BANKSYFilm is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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