The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
BANKSYThink outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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