Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYIf Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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 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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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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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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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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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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