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.
BANKSYGraffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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