Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSY
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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I’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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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