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.
BANKSYThere are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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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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