I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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