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.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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