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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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