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.
BANKSYKeep your coins, I want change.
More Banksy Quotes
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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