I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
BANKSYPeople seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
More Banksy Quotes
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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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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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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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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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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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