I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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