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.
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
More Banksy Quotes
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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 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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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 represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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