Banksy - People Quotes

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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.

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

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Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art

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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don t actually have to behave like one.

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

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

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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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