It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYI mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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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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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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