Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSYIf 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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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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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The 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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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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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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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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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