Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYNothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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All 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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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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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 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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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