Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYI’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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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