People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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