You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSYIt’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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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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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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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Nothing 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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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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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