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.
BANKSYYou can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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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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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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