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.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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 need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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 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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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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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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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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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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