Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSYWe don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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