One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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