I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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 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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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 holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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