I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSYIf you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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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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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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