If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSYSpeak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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