Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSYI don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
More Banksy Quotes
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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 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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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