We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSYA lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Graffiti 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.
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