I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSYI like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
More Banksy Quotes
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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