You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
More Banksy Quotes
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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