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.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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