People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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