Banksy on meaningless
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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.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BanksyBanksy Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BanksyBanksy In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BanksyBanksy We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BanksyBanksy People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BanksyBanksy 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 independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.
Tim CookTim Cook The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham The phrase ‘off with the crack of the bat’, while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
Joe DiMaggioJoe DiMaggio Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
A. Philip RandolphA. Philip Randolph There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn’t hold each other tight.
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