T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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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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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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