Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
BANKSYFilm is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
More Banksy Quotes
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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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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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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