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.
BANKSYPeople who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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It’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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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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