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.
BANKSYThe Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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 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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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