People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSYGaza 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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 know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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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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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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 Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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