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.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
More Banksy Quotes
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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