We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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 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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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 have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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