Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
BANKSYThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at 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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I’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.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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