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
BANKSYYou don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
More Banksy Quotes
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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