In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BANKSYYou don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
More Banksy Quotes
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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