Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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 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 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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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