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.
BANKSYThink outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
More Banksy Quotes
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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