People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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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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