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.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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