The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSYThe one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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 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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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