Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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