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.
BANKSYNothing 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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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 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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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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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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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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