Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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