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.
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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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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 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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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