I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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