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.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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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