Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSYNothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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