It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYI just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
More Banksy Quotes
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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 don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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 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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about 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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