Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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 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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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