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.
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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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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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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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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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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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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