Brandalism

Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Banksy, Wall and Piece

I’m going to speak my mind, so this won’t take very long.
Despite what they say graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody put off by the price of admission.

A wall has always been the best place to publish your work.
The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit, which makes their opinion worthless.
They say graffiti frightens people and is symbolic of the decline in society, but graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff. They expect to be able to shout their message in your face from every available surface but you’re never allowed to answer back. Well, they started the fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Banksy, Wall and Piece

People always seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.

Banksy

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal,
a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked.
Where every city was awash with a million colours and little phrases.
Where standing at a bus stop was never boring.
A city that felt like a living breathing thing which belonged to everybody,
not just the estate of agents and barons of business.
Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - its wet.

Banksy

http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/10/the_village_pet_store_and_charchoal_gril.html

La démocratie

À quoi sert la démocratie, se demandent-ils, si elle ne permet pas de se protéger contre cet insolite abandon? Si elle n'améliore pas rapidement les conditions matérielles de vie?

Ignacio Ramonet, Géopolitique du chaos
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Pobel

Banksy, The Cans Festival

There's always hope

Banksy

There's an elephant in the room

Banksy