Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYShould # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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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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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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