Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
BANKSYI’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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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