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.
BANKSYI 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.
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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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 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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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