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.
BANKSYYou don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
More Banksy Quotes
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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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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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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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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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