If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSYA lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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.
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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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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 greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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