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.
BANKSYIf you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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 recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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It’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.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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