One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSYThe 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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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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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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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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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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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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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