Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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