A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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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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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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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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