It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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