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.
BANKSYIf Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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