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.
BANKSYPeople say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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