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.
BANKSYShould # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
More Banksy Quotes
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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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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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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