Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSYI don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
More Banksy Quotes
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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