We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSYWe don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSYI have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
BANKSYAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSYThink outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSYYou owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
BANKSYI need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYYou don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSYA wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSYFilm is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYA lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSYIf 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.
BANKSYIt’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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