But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
BANKSYWhen you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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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.
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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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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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