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.
BANKSYYou don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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The 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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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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’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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