I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
More Banksy Quotes
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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