It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYPeople say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
More Banksy Quotes
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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Is 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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at 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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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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