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.
BANKSYGaza 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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