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.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
More Banksy Quotes
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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.
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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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 thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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