The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
BANKSYThe 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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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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