Banksy: Quotes about people

Banksy is pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Banksy: 164 quotes120 likes

“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.”

“It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.”

“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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Variant: Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)

“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.”

Source: Wall and Piece (2005)

“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.”

Source: Wall and Piece (2005)

“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.”

“People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.”

Wall and Piece (2005)

“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”

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

Source: Wall and Piece

“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.”

“A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to.”

Source: Wall and Piece (2007)

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

Wall and Piece (2005)
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

“people who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.”

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Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece

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

Source: Wall and Piece

“I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.”

“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.”

Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

“People seem to think that if they dress like a revolutionary, they don't actually have to behave like one.”

Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece

“The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk food and shout abuse. What we need in this race is a lot more streakers.”

Wall and Piece (2005)

“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…”

Wall and Piece (2005)

“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.”

taken from Adbusters magazine
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