Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYIf 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.
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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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