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.
BANKSYBrandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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 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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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’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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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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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