I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSYThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
More Banksy Quotes
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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