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.
BANKSYPeople 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate 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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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