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.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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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.
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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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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.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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.
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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.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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.
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