The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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 think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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