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.
BANKSYFight the fighters, not their wars.
More Banksy Quotes
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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