Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYMy lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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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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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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 seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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