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
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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