Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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