All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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