I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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 can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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