Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSYNot everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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’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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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