Banksy Quotes - Page 4

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• Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

  Banksy

  Black And White, Justice, Purity

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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.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, Graffiti

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• The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

  Banksy

  Differences, Slavery, Lines

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• Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

  Banksy

  People, Authority, Wall And Piece

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

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• People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

  Banksy

  Art, Morning, War

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

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• People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

  Banksy

  Hate, People, Care

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

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• When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

  Banksy

  Walks

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

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• It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

  Banksy

  New Orleans, Two, Car

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Thinking, Age

  "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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• Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

  Banksy

  Apples, Pie, Sick

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

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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.

  Banksy

  School, Cities, Names

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• If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

  Banksy

  Sex, Dirty, Role Models

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• I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

  Banksy

  Enemy, Way, Capitalism

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• Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

  Banksy

  People, Mind, Graffiti

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

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• I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

  Banksy

  Art, House, Guilty

  Source: www.timeout.com

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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.

  Banksy

  White, People, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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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.

  Banksy

  Art, People, House

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

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• Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.

  Banksy

  Two, Idiot, Annoying

  "The Artist Hanksy Creates Banksy-like Images of Tom Hanks". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 01, 2012.

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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.

  Banksy

  Believe, Ties, Cartoon

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

  Banksy

  Summer, Morning, Stress

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• I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There's no gallery show or book or film. It's pointless. Which hopefully means something.

  Banksy

  Art, Book, Mean

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• If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.

  Banksy

  Skills, Climbing, Drunk

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

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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.

  Banksy

  School, Past, Cities

  "Something to spray". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2003.

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• Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

  Banksy

  Art, Wall, Mean

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• I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

  Banksy

  Art, Clever, Years

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

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