Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSYT.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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.
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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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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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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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