Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSYI wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
More Banksy Quotes
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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 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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