One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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