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Showing posts with label Banksy Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banksy Quotes. Show all posts
Banksy Quotes
"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." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"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
Banksy Quotes
"Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody drew whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colors and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"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
Banksy Quotes
"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." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"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" — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realise that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking muppet." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"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
Banksy Quotes
"People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model." — Banksy
Banksy Quotes
"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 reuse. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.... " — Banksy
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