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November 11, 2005
Nothing like a Good Book
Bought an inspirational book this week:
by Banksy
It's important to have an input to maintain an output. You can't run on empty.
I can't work in isolation, I need to look at what others are up to. Not always things I would necessarily do myself, any amount of innovative, creative, work can inspire me to push my own work further.
Graffiti has a bad name, and indeed I don’t like the scrawl on the walls created by too much tagging or too little thought. But a lot of graffiti today is excellent.
Banksy says:
“Graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Despite having to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually the most honest artform available.
“The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit. But if you just value money then your opinion is 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 their 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 this fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back.”
Posted by john at November 11, 2005 12:58 AM