I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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 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 holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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