People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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