All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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