There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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