When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
More Banksy Quotes
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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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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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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