But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
More Banksy Quotes
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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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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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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If 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.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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