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.
BANKSYAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
More Banksy Quotes
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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 it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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