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.
BANKSYIt’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.
More Banksy Quotes
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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