Live as a villain, die as a hero
BANKSYThe 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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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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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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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