When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
More Banksy Quotes
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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 Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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