People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSYWriting 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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 holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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’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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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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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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