At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
BANKSYArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
More Banksy Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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 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.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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