You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSYI don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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 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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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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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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