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.
BANKSYAll graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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 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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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