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.
BANKSYIf you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
More Banksy Quotes
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life 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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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