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.
BANKSYWhen he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
More Banksy Quotes
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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