We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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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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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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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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