I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYI have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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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.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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