Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSYI have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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