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.
BANKSYIf you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
More Banksy Quotes
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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