If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
BANKSYPeople 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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