We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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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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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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 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 just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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