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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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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’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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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