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.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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