Keep your coins, I want change.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
BanksyBanksy Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BanksyBanksy All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BanksyBanksy Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BanksyBanksy T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BanksyBanksy Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
BanksyBanksy My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BanksyBanksy When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
BanksyBanksy I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
BanksyBanksy Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BanksyBanksy Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel Some days, you will be close to the finish line and still not make it.
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Bell HooksBell Hooks I separated someplace for each person in my heart, But she claimed to be the owner of it.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Modern-day love stories are born not out of love, but a tired mind and a restless heart.
Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase It doesn’t take courage to find peace in the arms of destiny. It takes faith.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.
Barry N. MalzbergBarry N. Malzberg My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
Tony FinauTony Finau The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan KayAlan Kay The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan The sun was a pewter coin in a leaden sky.
AnonymousAnonymous great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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