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.
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.
BANKSYNothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSYI don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
BANKSYSome 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.
BANKSYIf 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.
BANKSYIt doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSYThe 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.
BANKSYI 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.
BANKSYThe grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
BANKSYI need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYToday’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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.
BANKSYI wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
BANKSYNot everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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