People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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 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 wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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