People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
BANKSYI originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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