A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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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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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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