I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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