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.
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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