Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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’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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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