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.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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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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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