It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYPeople 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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