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.
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More Banksy Quotes
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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 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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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