One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSYGraffiti 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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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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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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