Banksy on today
Banksy115 quotes“If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.”
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BanksyBanksy I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
BanksyBanksy Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BanksyBanksy There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BanksyBanksy Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BanksyBanksy I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BanksyBanksy I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
BanksyBanksy Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BanksyBanksy Fight the fighters, not their wars.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BanksyBanksy I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BanksyBanksy A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BanksyBanksy 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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Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
Elena FerranteElena Ferrante Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
Primo LeviPrimo Levi Today the discredit of words is very great.
John BergerJohn Berger To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
Henry JamesHenry James What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
Timothy KellerTimothy Keller Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth Where we might go in the future, we’ll see. Customers love games. I’m not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.
Tim CookTim Cook
