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.
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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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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