If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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.
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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’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.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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