Live as a villain, die as a hero
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
More Banksy Quotes
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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 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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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