A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSYThink outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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