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.
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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If 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.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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I 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.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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