People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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 seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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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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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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