I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BANKSYIt’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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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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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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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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 seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of 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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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