The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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