People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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