Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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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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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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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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 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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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