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.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
More Banksy Quotes
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People 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.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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