Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYI originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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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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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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