I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYThe 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.
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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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