19. "To some people breaking into property and painting it might
seem a little inconsiderate, but in reality the 30 square
centimeters of your brain are trespassed upon every day by
teams of marketing experts. Graffiti is a perfectly
proportionate response to being sold unattainable goals by a
society obsessed with status and infamy. Graffiti is the sight
of an unregulated free market getting the kind of art it
deserves. And although some people might say it’s all a big
waste of time, no one cares about their opinion of their name
isn’t written in huge letters on the bridge into town.”
—Banksy, 2010 in Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, ed. Ethel
Seno, by Carlo McCormick in collaboration with Wooster Collective’s Marc & Sara
Schiller, additional texts by Banksy, Anne Pasternak, and J. Tony Serra (Taschen
2011), p. 6