You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSYIf 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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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