A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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If 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.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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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