You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSYA wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
More Banksy Quotes
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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