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 grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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