Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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More Banksy Quotes
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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 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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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