Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSYThe greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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 represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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