I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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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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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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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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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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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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