People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
BANKSYPeople say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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.
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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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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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