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.
BANKSYLive as a villain, die as a hero
More Banksy Quotes
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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