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.
BANKSYIt doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
More Banksy Quotes
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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