When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
More Banksy Quotes
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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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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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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