If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
BANKSYGraffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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 need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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 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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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