The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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 wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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