The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
BANKSYBecome good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
More Banksy Quotes
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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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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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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