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.
BANKSYI’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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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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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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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