“Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.”
Wall and Piece (2007)
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from his letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 6 November, 1955; as cited in the text of 'The Baziotes Memorial Exhibition' and its accompanying catalogue by Lawrence Alloway; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1965, p. 11
1950s
short quotes, 3 April 1972; p. 86
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
Evening Post, 2004 (taken from "Home Sweet Home - Banksy's Bristol" by Steve Wright)
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Source: Wall and Piece
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1972).
"Paula Hamilton"
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Context: Everywhere you look — Britain, the States, western Europe — people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake — a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.
“The brushstroke, in painting, is purely and
simply what it is – rhythm,
color, matter.”
ATV, 187; p. 175
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
“First we look at the hills in the painting,
Then we look at the painting in the hills.”
As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1935), pp. 99 and 248
Compare:
We're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we've passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;
And so they are better, painted,—better to us,
Which is the same thing. Art was given for that;
God uses us to help each other so,
Lending our minds out.
Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855)