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.
BANKSYThe grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
More Banksy Quotes
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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 grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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