Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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 a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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