Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
More Banksy Quotes
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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