I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSYAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
More Banksy Quotes
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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