Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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 seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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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.
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