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.
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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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