If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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