You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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 know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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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.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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