We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSYWhen he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
More Banksy Quotes
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at 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’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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 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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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 bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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