Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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