I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BANKSYThe 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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 need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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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.
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