You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSYThe 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.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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 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 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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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