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.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
More Banksy Quotes
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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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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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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