A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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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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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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