Fight the fighters, not their wars.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
More Banksy Quotes
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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