Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYPeople say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to 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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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