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.
BANKSYNothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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 bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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