Fight the fighters, not their wars.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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