You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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