Keep your coins, I want change.
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More from Banksy
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BanksyBanksy We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BanksyBanksy People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
BanksyBanksy I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BanksyBanksy Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BanksyBanksy 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 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.
BanksyBanksy Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BanksyBanksy People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BanksyBanksy I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
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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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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