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.
BANKSYIt doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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 believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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