The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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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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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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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