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.
BANKSYWhen you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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 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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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