We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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