Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSYWriting 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 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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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