I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYThere’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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