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.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
More Banksy Quotes
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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.
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