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.
BANKSYIt’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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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