Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSYWe can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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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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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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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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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