We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSYBus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
More Banksy Quotes
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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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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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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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