There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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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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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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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