Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYI wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
More Banksy Quotes
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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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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