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.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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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 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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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