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.
BANKSYNothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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