All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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