One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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