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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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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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Art Graffiti Important
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage People Used
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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 People Real
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Found Males Surveys
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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Graffiti Levels War
But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Artist Self Views
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Mind People
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Hero Need Recycling
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Art Holy Grail People
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Photography Progress Theatre
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 Cabinets Tourists
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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Shopping Should World
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing

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