People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSYThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at 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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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 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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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 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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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