You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BANKSYWe don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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.
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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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 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.
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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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