It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSYI need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
More Banksy Quotes
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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