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.
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More Banksy Quotes
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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.
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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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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 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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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