When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
BANKSYSpeak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
More Banksy Quotes
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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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.
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