Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Banksy on graffiti
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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.
BanksyBanksy I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
BanksyBanksy The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BanksyBanksy There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BanksyBanksy Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BanksyBanksy I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BanksyBanksy I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
BanksyBanksy Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BanksyBanksy Fight the fighters, not their wars.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BanksyBanksy I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
BanksyBanksy I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
BanksyBanksy If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
BanksyBanksy The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still – it’s not something that a museum would really embrace.
Barry McGeeBarry McGee A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BanksyBanksy The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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