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.
BANKSYI don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
More Banksy Quotes
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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