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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about 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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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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