The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSYI just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
More Banksy Quotes
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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