I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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