Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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More Banksy Quotes
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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