Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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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 know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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