I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSYGraffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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 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 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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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