If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
BANKSYArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
More Banksy Quotes
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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