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.
BANKSYI’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
More Banksy Quotes
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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.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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.
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