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.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
More Banksy Quotes
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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’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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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