Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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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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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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