If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
More Banksy Quotes
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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 wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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