If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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