The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
More Banksy Quotes
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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