Keep your coins, I want change.
BANKSYI’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 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 don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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