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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More Banksy Quotes
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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