We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSYShould # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
More Banksy Quotes
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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 have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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