Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSYThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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