One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSYNothing 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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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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