I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSYI originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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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’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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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