Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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 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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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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