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.
BANKSYAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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