It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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