A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSYNot everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
More Banksy Quotes
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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 mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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 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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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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