Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYI’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.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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 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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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