Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYI’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.
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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at 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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If 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.
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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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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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