Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSYI tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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