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.
BANKSYBus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
More Banksy Quotes
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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If 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.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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