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.
BANKSYI don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
More Banksy Quotes
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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