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.
BANKSYThe grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
More Banksy Quotes
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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 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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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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