Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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