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.
BANKSYI need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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I 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.
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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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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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