Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSYIf it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
More Banksy Quotes
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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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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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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