We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSYBus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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 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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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