People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
BANKSYI 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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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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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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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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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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 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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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