Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSYToday’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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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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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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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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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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The 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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Nothing 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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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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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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