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.
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 Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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 believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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