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
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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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