Banksy Quotes
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'People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot. '
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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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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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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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'People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.'
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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'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 wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.
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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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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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'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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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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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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'People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.'
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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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 greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.'
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
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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.