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.
BANKSYThe 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
More Banksy Quotes
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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 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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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