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.
BANKSYIn the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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