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.
BANKSYIn the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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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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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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