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.
BANKSYBecome good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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 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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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