Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
BANKSYThe grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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