Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSYIs graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
More Banksy Quotes
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate 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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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