I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BANKSYBus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
More Banksy Quotes
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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