I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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