Banksy Quotes - Page 2

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• The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

  Banksy

  Negativity, Negative People, Graffiti

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• One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

  Banksy

  Original Thought, Originals, Meaningless

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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

  Banksy

  Art, Real, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

  Banksy

  Live For Today, Alive, Painting

  "Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk". Interview with AJ Schnack, edendale.typepad.com. December 21, 2010.

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• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Civilization, Role Models

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• The people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.... any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you ,, its yours to take, rearrange and re use.Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

  Banksy

  Running, Thinking, Rocks

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  If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

  Banksy

  Art, Lying, People

  Martin Bull, Banksy (2011). “Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from Around the U.K.”, p.144, PM Press

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• Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

  Banksy

  Graffiti, Tools, Street Art

  "Objectified" by Joe Winkler, www.guernicamag.com. October 22, 2013.

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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.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Graffiti

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

  Banksy

  Mother, Children, Parenting

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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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.

  Banksy

  Art, Tourists, Cabinets

  "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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• I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

  Banksy

  Believe, Violence, Don't Believe

  "Banksy Was Here" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Keep your coins, I want change.

  Banksy

  Coins, Want

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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.

  Banksy

  Drinking, Cutting, Air

  "Banksy in Gaza: Street artist goes undercover in the Strip" by Raziye Akkoc, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2015.

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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.

  Banksy

  People, Looks, Internet

  "Banksy on New Gaza Art: We Care More About Kittens Than Human Suffering" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2015.

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• You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

  Banksy

  Art, Creativity, Mind

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• There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

  Banksy

  Art, Sex, Revenge

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• In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

  Banksy

  Minutes

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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.

  Banksy

  Successful, Artist, Needs

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• I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

  Banksy

  Trying, Graffiti, World

  "Banksy Was Here". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

  Banksy

  Cheating, Art, Deep Thought

  "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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• I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

  Banksy

  Art, Animal, Wild And Free

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those 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 somebody smile while they're having a piss.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, War

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

  Banksy

  Writing, Names, Profound

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• You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

  Banksy

  Business, Asking, World

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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