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.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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