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.
BANKSYWe can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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