All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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 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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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